With every passing day, I try to reflect on my blessings and privileges. It has become a coping strategy to feel content amidst chaos. I am grateful to be quarantined with someone I truly love and get along with.
In these times you reflect on how important life choices are. You realise the need to fully process life-altering decisions carefully because if we have learnt anything from 2020 it is that life can present you with the most abrupt changes and challenges. Things will not always be sweet, and we must learn to deal with uncertainty.
Many marriage therapists have said that this period will see a rise in divorce rates with the added stressful financial pressures, living situations, childcare, and household management brought on due to pandemic. While I agree, I think the bigger problem rests in the reality that we have grown so accustomed to perfection and there is such a negative stereotype attached reasoning and cutting egos down to size.
