There are people that complete us
Friendship, feelings, and love on the cloud
I have been in isolation for 4 weeks, on the first two days, I panicked a little. This couldn’t be happening, I didn’t want it to happen. I wanted to be able to go out, be face-to-face with the ones that are most important to me, I didn’t want to talk with them on a screen.
I’m fine, but I’m not complete, something is missing, but I don’t know what it is. I have my family with me, many things to do with my time, the only thing is that I can’t go outside, but even with that, I’m in peace, so what is missing? Sometimes after doing zoom in you have to zoom out, to be able to see the big picture.
Life isn’t a checklist where if we did almost everything we would be completely satisfied. For me, life is more something like a True or False, have you done everything you can to be with every person that is important to you? I wasn’t doing it, sometimes not even with the people I had at home, but this week I tried to do it and I felt complete.
If it has to be online, do it there, but the distance only distances us if we let it and it’s temporary unlike friendships and relationships, those don’t wait, they are like plants, some need more water or more sun than others, but all of them die with time if they are forgotten.
We can’t complain about everything instead, we can try to do something similar to lemonade with the most bitter lemons that life gives us.
Text messages don’t replace hearing the voice, seeing the face, feeling what the other is feeling. However, all of that is possible online, that only doesn’t replace the touch, the proximity, but when the time comes we’ll get it back and when it happens we’ll value that so much more. For now, what we have is perfectly enough, enjoy it. Don’t make this a break in your lives, take advantage of it to live one more act where every one of us can and should be the play’s lead actor.
Today, I felt complete. There are people, talks, moments that recharge our batteries, which give us more air to breathe. I have the luck to have 4 of those people in my home with me, living that moment by my side and me by theirs and some others only just a click away. Do we really have so much to complain about? Don’t many of us have that luck? Take it.
