Tips and Tricks – DO NOT LET WHAT YOU LEARN FROM THIS FADE LIKE YOU DID 9/11 or ANY other disaster that affected your country/state/personal life.
Never forget: Next time you tell someone with depression or anxiety to stop freaking out so much, look around at people right now in the grocery stores or on the media. Then look at your friends who’ve lived with anxiety and depression, surprisingly, relatively calm. The worst-case scenario is how many of us who deal with our anxieties feel EVERY DAY. We have a lot more practice at moving on and living in spite of that and focusing on the good, it’s the only way we function. You’re in our world now, remember how this feels next time you get frustrated with those facing anxiety on a bad day.
Never Forget: How important school’s suddenly affected what happens to you in your every day life. Teachers deal with what you are going through multiplied by 100’s DAILY. Good teachers do it smiling and trying to ignore the fact that you feel like they’re incompetent or lying about your child’s difficulties, or they don’t care. Many of them make just at the level of qualifying for low-income, maybe slightly above. Volunteer in classrooms, give them Christmas cards with Gift Cards or something if you can afford it. Make sure to remember how frustratingly incompetent you may feel right now with one child, and remember the worth of Teachers next time you receive a ballot that affects the school’s funding.
Never Forget: (Tied to the message above for teachers) Never forget you survived without sports, movie theaters and entertainment. Remember how much money those people make and there was almost no affect on your day to day life that they aren’t there. The average NBA player salary is equal to over 160 yearly teacher salaries.
Never Forget: What it was like to have uninterrupted family time. When you actually talked, went on walks, shared your fears and your hopes. To share the laughter as you spent a day your children, instead of asking for a summary of how their day was. Remember when they’re was no game to catch with the guys, or a Friday night at the pub. Remember how hard your spouse works each day now that they are trying to do it from home. Remember what is like to communicate.
Never Forget: Most importantly, never forget those who spread fear during this time in contrast to those who did their best to help others feel peace. The world will always be in turmoil, some greater than others. Heros are being born every minute of this disaster, and will not have a fraction of the publicity of those who pretend to be heroes on screen. Multi shift medical personnel, grocery clerks, administration of schools, public services and companies who came up with contingencies as they were needed for unprecedented disaster on a global scale. Neighbors offering extra supplies.
Never Forget the good that exists in humanity is greater than the abhorrent attempts of villains and cowards to highlight the opposite.
Stressed and Blessed 