This is just a test. All of it, isn’t it? Human tests, and we are all the subjects. Personal tests, global tests. Fortunately for me, not math tests. My spelling is mostly okay, but math? Yikes!
Personal test. Test #1. My first blog ever. Yesterday I spent roughly 13 hours getting my entire site set up. (It’s harder than it looks). The day before I spent exactly tons of hours, too. If tons of hours is exact. There I was, scrambling away, cutting and pasting, looking and adding to the site all the blogs I’d written from before that I wanted to share with you. There’s just so much to do! I haven’t added all my images yet, sorry. Finally, last night I pulled the trigger and said “publish.” I was so excited. Today I woke up ready and excited to see, for the first time ever, my very own site and…nothing. It still just says waiting for development. Oh.
Global test. Test #2. There we were, 2020, a New Year, a new era. The year itself seemed so exciting, full of possibilities and who knows what? Then the Corona virus struck and the who-knows-what turned into global pandemic and toilet paper shortages. Wow, we didn’t expect that, did we? So far, 229, 971 deaths globally as of May 2, 2020. And that’s just deaths, not cases. Covid-19 will change the world, probably forever if we’re honest. (I like honesty, let’s go with that). Economics, travel, health care, social health, mental health, health bars. Oh, wait, that’s Heath bars. Nix that, Heath bars are candy. Heath bars are probably going to stay the same. (Does anyone eat those?). I don’t know what a health bar is. Is that something you eat or a place you go?
Anyway, the good that will come out of this–and there will be good–includes changes to all of the larger systems and structures, changes in all of those things I just mentioned before I got distracted by Heath bars. We might even reconsider…well, all of it. Hopefully the virus has woken us up, increased our awareness and gratitude for all that we have. I hope Covid-19 has helped us realize that we don’t need nearly as much as we thought we did, and that we were taking a lot of stuff for granted. I know I was. Hopefully it well help us shift our priorities and recognize more deeply what truly matters. I hope we can continue to learn from this experience, even as we weather the aftermath of its destruction. Now that I’ve been talking about all of those global things, it gives me a new perspective on my tiny disappointment. Welcome to Feisty Quill.
3 replies on “The First Blog, the First Test”
Heath bars are a distraction! My Uncle Ralph, who had no teeth, could jaw one until it was all gone. The challenges he met throughout his life were horrendously awful, and I never remember him whining about them, which seems way too prevalent today…
Hope we can move beyond our pettiness and move on to becoming more loving to all creatures great and small who inhabit this earth of ours!
Yay! You did it! Congrats! Love you!
I love Heath Bars and Health Bars. Both are necessary. This is what COVID-19 has taught me.