Are we finally in a comeback from the physical and mental restrictions of the COVID “thing”? For many of us, this has been an ordeal. As Seniors, it may have affected us differently than our younger brothers and sisters.
How? As Seniors, we are less resilient. Younger folks are more resistant.
We are physically and mentally damaged by isolation. We need people. Community is a major factor in longevity, COVID or NO COVID.
We are more susceptible to illness because of our aging immune systems. We are nervous, fearful (because of media), bored, have feelings of powerlessness, and other symptoms of the isolation that was pretty much forced on us by the circumstances.
I suggest that we have been isolated in a COVID CONVENT.
As a result, many of us have developed patterns of behavior that have resulted in complacency, inactivity, isolation and even physical frailties and flabbiness.
Assuming future strains of the COVID “thing” are a bit milder and less destructive than what we’ve had up to now, we need to start bringing ourselves out of that COVID CONVENT that we have allowed ourselves to be cloistered in.
To do that, we must break some of the patterns of behavior that we have allowed to become part of our normal lives. We must start eating well and moving again. We must get up off the couch and turn off the TV and start DOING things again — in some cases with other people. All too often, so many of us have become “couch potatoes” because of the physical and social restrictions imposed on us.
Physical activity plays an important role in the game of reawakening from that COVID CONVENT. Physical activity, when we don’t overdo it, will make us FEEL better and may even get rid of some of that newly accumulated blubber that has become a part of some of us.
But the main goal is to get back to normal, and maybe even a little bit better. If we take stock of where we were before COVID, what COVID did to us, and the possibilities that lay beyond COVID, we can move beyond where we were before the virus and become better and more active Seniors.
How many of you told yourself, “when COVID is over, I’m/we’re going to pick a dream and do it .” Well, now’s your chance. Yes, you will take some time to get yourself back to normal and become comfortable with you freedom. But then it is time to move ahead with your plans.
Barring a reversion to a major recurrence of COVID, now can be an opportunity for that re-awakening into new possibilities that we have thought about so often during our isolation. The barriers are being pulled down. While they are not all the way down yet, they are close.
Look at leaving the COVID CONVENT as an opportunity for something new. Look at the possibilities and maybe chase after a few of them.
This has been a SeniorFlow Moment. Thank you for reading.
