Empowering Embrace W ritten
by
R ob y n T ic h auer
What have you been doing with your time? On multiple occasions, as a result of video calling with friends, this question stayed with me long after the call ended. Naturally, the topic of conversation was largely centred on the current pandemic. And it always leads to how we’re keeping ourselves busy. Like many people, I went into this time with good intentions to get stuff done and learn more. But somehow… Days have disappeared and I’m nowhere near to completing my to-do list. Across the world, people have been hard-hit by this pandemic. The consequences therefore look different for different people. Some struggle with fulfilling their basic needs of food and sanitation, some need to deal with a salary cut or retrenchment, some are full-time home-schooling parents and fulltime employees, some are fighting internal mental battles and too many are severely ill from the virus. Amidst one of the biggest struggles we’ve yet encountered, we’re isolated and our normal routines have had to be redone.
different ways for different people, but traumatic nonetheless. Those to-do lists and motivational talks I had pumped myself up with seem somewhat ridiculous in our given circumstances. How am I meant to start a business after the economy has taken an even bigger hit and people are out there starving and vulnerable? How am I meant to write a book when my thoughts are running marathons about the uncertainties of my future and of those I love? How are we meant to be 100% efficient and productive The situation we’re in is traumatic, in when people are fighting their own 07
