I am guessing you have felt it.
Maybe you have participated or contributed to it.
Exuberant hope
Unmasked optimism
After a year of living in fear and isolation, bound and
gagged, there is a loosening of the bonds. We struggle and wriggle to get free.
Relaxed restrictions, a return of sports and indoor dining.
Whispers of live music and public swimming pools about to return. Travel without guilt.
All of it like a fresh breeze on a summer evening, a break
from the day’s heat endured.
Enjoy it, brothers and sisters.
I think of a patient I saw yesterday in the clinic, where I
am still only seeing about 30% of my patients in-person. In this case we got to
some deeper things that were going on with the person’s health and in their
life. These are the things that are never listed on the “reason for visit” in
medicine. As I got up to leave the room, I paused and shared, “I don’t know
that we would have dug this deep if this had been a phone visit.” They nodded
in agreement.
Take this opportunity to connect with people. That same
intentionality that has led us to protect each other over the last year now a
chance to connect with one another. There is a lot there under the surface. 14
months-worth of stuff, to be exact.
I also know that this next stage will be hard for many of
us. It will be guided by social science and a year of conditioning to be wary
and fearful as much it will be guided by the science of COVID prevalence and
vaccine rates.
There was a moment in our Running Medicine group a week ago
where we dealt with very different feelings about getting the group of masked
runners and walkers into a bigger circle. There was clearly not a consensus to
form a larger group, and so we kept the circles separate and small. It was not
a moment to cite stats on transmissibility of COVID. It was a chance to listen
to each other and do what was most comfortable for everyone present. A week
later, the bigger circle formed.
Just as we have done since last March, let’s respect each
other’s space in these months ahead. Space to digest a new CDC or state update
in very different ways. One might exclaim “We aren’t ready to do that yet”
while their neighbor exclaims, “It’s about time.” Neither end of the spectrum
right or wrong.
Enjoy this stage of the journey.
Connect with others.
Give space and grace for those around you.
Good things lie ahead.
Amen!
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