Detrecto

First world problems in a Covid world

Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
Menu

Driving

Posted on May 24, 2020 by Detrecto

I get to go to the office today – which is a 40 minute drive on a country highway where I probably won’t see too many other cars and I’ll have the opportunity to pop a podcast on and enjoy a total of 1.5 hours of solitude.

It feels weird in a lock down world. I’ve spoken to others who talk of considerable anxiety over doing such things (work, driving etc) after such a long period of not going far away from the couch. I can’t relate. I’m nothing but excited. And when I feel such excitement it’s an opportunity to appreciate just how far along the recovery path I have come (nearly used the word journey there, time to delete the blog and hide in a cave forever offering apologies to any God that will listen. And maybe sacrifice the odd creature just to be on the safe side.)

In fact yesterday I did quite a few things that feel abnormal – all within the rules and allowed but it still felt wrong. I bumped into one guy who is trying to get to the next state in order to see a family member who is in palliative care – a story straight out of Upright. I hope he makes it and is allowed to make the journey.

On reflection, it’s going to take time to get used to the new normal but one thing I can take from all this is that when change happens these days, I can embrace it instead of hiding in a corner and banging my head off a window. Anxiety really is a fine line between excitement and utter terror.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Categories

  • Covid-19 (16)
  • Credit Where Credit's Due… (1)
  • Happy News (2)
  • Mental Health (20)
  • News (1)
  • Stupid Thoughts (38)
  • Twitterisms (1)

Recent Posts

  • Peer Work & Football
  • Deep As
  • ?
  • Wasting Tea
  • Crossroads

Archives

  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • July 2018

Tags

anxiety (7) awesome (1) bipolar (1) blog (1) boredom (1) cats (1) clinicians (1) Corona (1) Covid (12) dad (1) entertainment (1) football (1) forgetful (1) friendship (2) gamer (1) games (2) Grant Imahara (1) happy broadcast (1) health (1) lego (1) life (1) mental health (4) Minecraft (1) Mythbusters (1) Netflix (1) news (1) passion (1) peer work (4) purpose (1) recovery (4) Sad (1) silliness (4) sport (1) swearing (1) tea (1) virus (1) WFH (6) WFH. Covid (3) wife (1) winter (3) Xbox (1)

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2021 Detrecto | Powered by Superbs Personal Blog theme