Adapt

Adapt. The more I read and the more I talk to people, I realise this is what we have to do to survive life. Things have happened in the past few weeks that have stopped us doing our ‘norm’. I have seen some great ways of how people are being creative and adapting, how businesses are changing their fundamental business practices. There can be no ‘we’ve always done it that way’ mentality any more. It’s forcing people outside of what was a ‘normal’, safe, comfort zone. It’s tearing up the blueprint of society and giving us teh opportunity to draw up a new one.

I’ve realised that my recent posts have been more of a social observation and commentary but I try and bring it back to what I can do or how I am feeling.

The world is changing at a rapid pace and the only way to survive is to adapt, this applies to more than just the current situation. There is opportunity everywhere. In the short term there will be grief, anger, fear and sadness as we have lost our community. But, it will be choice on how we get through this and also how we change going foward.

It’s a massive wake up in the ‘taking for granted’ stakes. We are starting to appreciate the simple things that we didn’t have time to appreciate. The fluff around the outside has been taken away and we are being forced to go back to the basics. Now is a time to practice gratitude.

I’m talking about we and us but this applies to me. I’ve experienced the emotions above, I’ve been resistant to ‘being controlled’, I’ve focussed on what I can’t do rather than what I can. It’s time to slow down, breathe and embrace this (I know, easier said than done!!)……