Getting past COVID: It’s decision time!

With COVID having taken front and center stage for the last few years, it is time to revamp.

It is time for us to redesign our lives.

There is before COVID, during COVID, and now we are ready to start living after COVID. It is time, even though we know we have not seen the end of COVID. I’m ready to run my own life instead of COVID running my life. It doesn’t mean I have to go to rock concerts or be at the Bronco stadium for a game.

I don’t need to be around that many people or be that close to people, but it is time for me to hold the reins of my life, not someone else or some other authority!

I have not been to a gym since before COVID. I am going to start going back to the gym. Yes, I will start out very light, especially light since I hurt my knee.

I don’t think we need to go overboard, but at the same time, I am reminded that most older people fall because they have lost their strength to even catch themselves.

I do want to stay strong, so I am going back to the gym. I will be careful!

And I have gained some weight. I guess it is what people call the “COVID 15” or some such. At any rate, I do not remember a time in my life that I have been so sedentary as I have been since the beginning of COVID.

So, I’m taking the bull by the horns and going to the gym and doing some exercise.

I’ll try to start out with ing in a restaurant, just take something home where you don’t have to share the air with anyone. three days a week. I will start with just a little on the stationary bike if it doesn’t hurt my knee to ride it. I will do some light weights.

While there I will see if there are any classes I might be interested in taking like Zumba or yoga.

Since they were home during COVID, some people bought or used their stationary bikes. Maybe they even put a work-out room in their house.

Others used the time to learn to cook things they had never cooked before. If you haven’t explored different recipes on youtube.com, please do so.

You can find someone trying to teach you just about anything to cook. It would be great if I would just go by the recipe instead of trying to ‘improve” it, right?

And if you are not one to cook, COVID made take out a real “thing.” Instead of eat-

I’ve never been a take-out kind of person, but COVID did teach me that I would rather eat at home than in a restaurant. I cook very simply. Today I cooked vegetable soup. And there are no LOUD noises at my house like in a restaurant. Take stock of whatever it is you are doing and, with intent, ask yourself: am I still living scared to death of COVID?

If you are, have a little talk with yourself. Look around and notice that life is going on, regardless. Maybe it goes on a little differently. And, God knows, there is healing needed from losing those you loved, friends as well as family.

And maybe, just maybe it is time to open the drapes to our lives once again and look out at that great wild yonder and decide, what am I going to do today.

Because I pretty much do the same thing day after day, I like to say, and what am I going to do today that is different? Like go to the gym? Learn a new recipe?

I’ve always been around older people, and I’ve learned a few things from them.

If you want to do it, do it now. All we have is now.

We hope and pray for many more tomorrows, but we have today, so if there is something I am really wanting to do, I owe it to myself to do now.

I am willing to have company for dinner when I offer only a simple soup and salad. I’m sure they have had better. So what?

I’m willing to have people over when my house isn’t perfect. A few misplaced items is really no big deal.

I’m willing to participate in something I want to do that I have never done before. I’m willing to live!

In many ways we have been blessed to live this long and blessed to have survived the COVID years.

We have a few good years left.

What do you want to do with them?

It is decision time!

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