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08/05/2020

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22/03/2020

So beautifully written by Psychologist Jolene Knowles 💕

So, we’re at home. We find ourselves killing time, watching Netflix, practicing reading, writing, maths, and making history. Hard to imagine how generations to come will look at 2020. Will they be awestruck by how we worked together as a globe, how we stayed at home to protect each other and how we curbed a virus? Although the near future may be uncertain, how will our children remember this crucial time right now?

Will they see these few weeks as a time of trauma, something they will pass onto their own children? Will they look at this with a deep sense of loss, shuddering like people did for generations after great wars?

Or perhaps our children’s children will be told about a time in 2020 when people showed hope and patience. Will they teach their children about the value of community and making choices for the benefit of others? Will children teach their children the lessons like appreciating those you love and the strangers in the street? Will they continue to practice what their parents learned about how the environment turned for the positive in this time, and continued in that direction because of what people did after?

Will our children treasure the extra time they had with their parents at home or will they remember it as difficult and hostile?

Will our children (and the adults) see these weeks at home in 2020 as a reset? A time when they slowed down and experienced something different to their usual rat race. Even though this time had difficulties, could they look back at this time right now, partly in appreciation, remembering how their usual daily stress and anxiety melted a little, in a dawdling pace. Could they at look back and remember extra long, indulgent hugs and a sense of having a little more time?

We shape the future with the present. What comes after this right now is unclear, but let’s make good choices just for today.

What are the stories our children will tell their children about this time, right now, in 2020?

Jolene Knowles 22 March 2020

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