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Designing the New Normal
Thinking about “the day after” COVID-19~Forget reset, it wasn’t meant to be anyway.
As the blanket of COVID-19 covers more of the world and the number of people infected increases, the degrees of separation with the virus is decreasing. These days are filled with a colossal amount of information and noise, and it’s a lot to process…A LOT. Several weeks spent trying to understand, navigate and make sense of it all has been overwhelming.
Many of us are undergoing levels of grief and mourning. Our internal grief shows up in stages we’ve may be familiar with, but haven’t connected it to this current state. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance may be happening individually; the isolation en masse. We worry about loved ones in clustered areas and far away, overworked first responders; life and death for not only those directly infected, but side effects of loneliness, anxiety, and stress. There has been an outcry for getting back to normal, missing our pre-virus lifestyles and craving a reset. I was one of those people.
Then I received a newsletter from my friend, Lucas Spivey of Culture Hustlers, whose program helps creatives become sustainable, asking if we really wanted to go back to “normal”. Huh?? Then the words he wrote shook me out of my crisis haze: You don’t have to go back to normal. Maybe normal kind of sucked anyway.
