COVID-19: Part Two
COVID-19 has not been about what I’m learning about myself. It has been the validation I haven’t ever received. In all of the years, weeks, months prior to all of this, I spent time learning about myself. I learned that everybody has their season. For some, this has been the time where they’re learning about themselves. For others, who have been learning about themselves and have been expanding that way and questioning it, at some point they want to be validated. I didn’t really know I wanted to be validated. I wasn’t seeking it. But this period of time has brought to me so much validation in such huge ways that it’s like “Wow, how beautiful.” I have so much gratitude for it and thank every time I experience feeling that validation, just to be able to receive it. It’s not comfortable for me. It’s not like I’m going to wait for someone to pat me on my back. But it actually feels really good to be validated by the universe and hear that for every moment I may have doubted and questioned, yet displayed the courage to do absolutely the only thing that was congruent to my gut, soul, and inner-being, despite every temptation that attempted to get me out of there, here’s the validation. That’s been so fun. When I started the show to say that this has been peaceful, that’s the peacefulness. That’s where it came from for me.
It’s interesting how everything is about perspective. That applies to both isolation and quarantine and our perception on what we think we are told we can do and can’t do. We need to break free from all of that. It’s so unclear. It’s really the means to control the masses, which there’s a need for that to a certain degree. But that doesn’t mean it is the need to control you. You must know you. You must know from a place of responsibility, from a place of awareness. You know you. You know how all of this lands on you and therefore the decisions you make.
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