Missed Years, Waves, and Straight Line

Greetings again, Hopefully the weekend was a welcome respite to everyone's busy lives. Speaking of busy, it is hard to think a year ago we as a society were cluelessly bogged down by the disaster called the pandemic. Days where we thought it will never end but here we are, although it never really did end, only the world caught up to it. Honestly many of us who thought come 2023 we will be in a much easier world than the previous two had it wrong .

The years during the pandemic presented so many challenges, most universal was a different way of being a society. It forced us to slow down. The introverts thrived better. As we  learned to go through struggles of a new normal while waiting its dark clouds of the unknown to lift.  And yet we are still not through, the aftershocks of this global catastrophe still has its iron clutch on the society, even now,  as we grapple to move on and forget.  

It has gotten better in many ways but struggles and side effects of it are still anew and new to us. which reminds me to share a beautiful analogy that my doctor put forth for this as a prediction. He said if the years of the pandemic was rebuilding's one's leg fracture through rest, then the post pandemic years will be like the strengthening the leg back to normal through physiotherapy. And while both are hard physiotherapy will determine how well we walk again. And so these are the years of physiotherapy, or so i remind myself.

For me personally being grateful for making it through these years is on top of the list. Although my one complain is that I probably grew 4 years older in 2 years in the grips of anxiety. Those were really the missed years, the days of youth and childhood and adulting collectively gone with no cheer. where we lost track of time, seasons came and went without a care. Needless to say we all did well!

So I propose this, why not as an appreciation for making it through those days. The governments all over should let people drop their age by 2 in all official records. If were 38 in 2020 I would like to start over from 38 in 2023. Yes it's truly, silly but I think we are allowed a bit of silliness to make it through the ups and downs of the years of physiotherapy. 

In my doctors words, in medical profession as well as in life it's good news to have the ups and downs to life than a straight line. The wave simply means we are going through an interesting and eventful life, life as it should be moving forward . The straight line on the other hand means, well we know what it means.

Nothing about the ever changing universe or its rhythm is a straight line, the ocean, clouds, sound or light, nothing is a constant and everything is in an expanding wave motion and so are we who dwell here.  We are both particles and waves. So let's all together enjoy the waves of life for a long time before we encounter the straight lines.

Here are a few picture of nature in motion.