Many of us have had our lives interrupted. We cannot go where we did just a few weeks ago. But we can look at this as an opportunity to explore new horizons. Not everything requires we go out. And, for many of us, there are things we would like to do but have never found time to do them. Well, now is a great time to start.
In some cases, we can start an activity or learn something we always were interested in learning. In other cases, we can go places we have not had the opportunity to visit via virtual tours. The important thing is to keep the mind and the body active. And what is really nice is that we have time to do more than one of these activities.
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It is better to have a positive attitude and find alternatives to normal activity than to be negative.
Hi blackspanielgallery,
I totally agree to the ideas you have suggested especially going for a virtual tour. This pandemic although has restricted travel has given an opportunity to introspect. And it is never too late.
We have much open here, some with restrictions such as not being able to peruse shelves. Instead one might find an employee will get such things as books. So, you might ask for a book and wait until it is retrieved. I am uncertain.
blackspanielgallery, Thank for the practical information.
Gardening and walking are always popular here, and ever more so with the mild spring through summer into fall.
Art, reading -- unless they're scary -- and writing furnish such educational, entertaining and therapeutic outlets. (Have the libraries reopened in Louisiana?)
The option of writing and the possibility of initial failure make me think of a film and of a novel, the former I just re-saw and the latter I revisit often during these pandemic months. The film Darkest Hour offers Prime Minister Winston Churchill's observation that "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." La peste by Albert Camus reveals one of the characters during the mysteriously spread, mysteriously terminated plague never getting off the first sentence about la belle Amazone in the novel he so wants to write.
Your point is well taken.
Frank, I am a bit older than you, and before I go too far I need to determine if there are facilities. Here there are no booths for such things, we need to go into an establishment, and that is not possible.
You have mastered the often unspoken requirement, keeping the mind active as well as the body.
I still have my students, but am about to start making educational videos.
We took flasks with us and found a bench outside a closed public house [inn.]The police have been moving on people sitting in parks, but outside parks they don't seem concerned, but my point is that as I am elderly and have mobility problems, exercise needs to include rest periods.No one challenged our right to sit.
One idea of mine for spending time is to begin to re-read some academic books that have been sitting long on my bookshelves.I have also been studying my book collection with a view to making it smaller,giving books that I will not read or use again to the charity shop, when it re-opens.
I have also agreed to proof-read someone's doctoral thesis.I am copy editing for the language. I am a qualified copy editor.
One must do something to avoid boredom. If you are in the situation we are in you would have to take your tea with you, since dining in no matter how small is not allowed. We can pick up, and many places bring food out to the customer, or pass it out of a drive-thru window. Sitting is not possible, since the chairs are all picked up.
I and Maureen did a five mile walk today. We took a break half way for tea [we are British] and a biscuit [cookie.] With my ailment, I knew that I needed a good walk to take me forward .It was tiring, especially for my back, but I am walking my way back to health. I think that doing this is a good way to spend my time.