Reflection!

This time of year many in our world celebrate different things. You the reader have your celebrations. We all at some point celebrate a New Year. Different ways to celebrate and different times but a New Year will be upon us at some point.

This year many of us cannot celebrate as in the past. Health restrictions, travel restrictions, and maybe the passing of family members effect us greatly. The latter is permanent while the rest, hopefully, will not be with us in 12 months.

I grieve for those that have lost family. It hurts and leaves a hole that never truly is filled or covered.

Also I grieve for the lost time with family, fiends, and coworkers. The ability to touch or hug is an indescribable hurt that leaves us with a loss of personal. This loss is intensified by the wearing of the protective mask and required spacing plus the reduced density of people in buildings. We in many ways are reduced to being a single entity without others.

On the positive side however, family we live with and friends that are as close as family have become our whole world. With those that have this supportive circle we have become closer and involved.

Simply put each and every one of us has seen a shrinking of our world and a depersonalization of our lives. There are those that struggle with this and some cannot cope with this change. Help those in need and offer a kind understanding voice but most of all listen to them.

Listening is a difficult skill that rarely is taught and never tested. But it is very important specially now when many have little left but their voice.

I wish all a happy celebration of that which means the most to you and wish for us all a better new year.