A Parallel World

It is a strange time we live in. Not so much because of the fear of catching Covid, the debates around the jab, the lockdowns we have walked through, the restrictions we have become accustomed to, but the mindset that so many of us are now experiencing. A mindset that has slowly formed over the last few months. Like a ticking clock, counting down the minutes and moments until we are out of restrictions, so have our minds been tick, tick, ticking away.

The journey of the last 12 months has taken it’s toll. and I suspect more than many of us thought. So many people are now struggling with anxiety, like a new form of social anxiety has been developed. One where we are afraid of stepping back out into the world and ‘peopling’ again.

Anxiety is running high, fear of acceptance, fear of change, fear of loneliness as so many of us have gone through a process of stepping away from those who no longer belonged in our world.

Life is beginning to ask a lot of us again, and we are feeling the strain. Energy levels are riding high and plummeting the next. We are drained and our minds are running overdrive. We are multi-tasking more than ever before with a pressure that we are no longer used to as we adjust to getting ‘back in the game’.

There is an ugliness though. An ugliness in business as funding, grants and support and disappearing and tax bills are looming, so many are scrabbling around in the dirt, chasing the pennies at any cost. But what cost? Their integrity, their morals, their clients success levels, their…