Dear Jessica Brennan,
We have all learned so much this year, and I know that personally, things have started to come into focus that I had let get a bit blurry. One thing I have noticed is that with all the lock-down and uncertainty, one of the things I miss the most is that “something to look forward to”.
For a while, I was getting quite blue about it. I mean usually we would have a trip to Savannah, Charleston or San Antonio on the books. I might have a plan to travel with Dad to some of his concerts. We had a trip planned for a few days in Toronto in April, and we had planned to have a dinner party in June. We should have made it to Niagara on the Lake by now. None of these things are happening in this strange time we call 2020.
That feeling of not having anything to look forward to, was really starting to bring me down.
But then, I thought of all the things that I could be doing. All the Pinterest projects I have saved but not done, the recipes I have tucked away and never made, the Instagram “looks” that I was vowing to try in a room, in the yard, or on myself. That thriller I want to write.
I have actual and virtual scrapbooks heaving with things to do “someday” when I have time. Things to make, eat, write about and create. Well guess what? Someday has arrived. It is here, staring us all in the face everywhere we look.
Hello Someday, meet Jessica. Someday, meet Mum. Someday, meet all of planet earth.
Everyone appears to be struggling in one way or another with the isolation that has befallen us, and as a result we all seem to need to work a little harder to protect our own mental health.
Giving myself permission to bring someday into the now, and go back and rediscover play is my way. I hope you have found some ways too.
Love,
Mum xo
