We Humans are Resilient.
First, I want to thank everyone who takes the time to read my blog, while emphasizing that you are resilient. This is the last thing I will post for the unforeseeable future so that I can focus on meeting my tenure-track goals. I cannot blog and write academic articles simultaneously, so this is my goodbye for a long while. If I do not get five academic articles published, then I lose the job I love. There is a standard set for assistant professors, and we either ‘publish or perish’. I choose to publish, or at minimum, give it my very best effort. All is well with me, and I’m still writing, just not on this platform. Those of you that do read my blog, please send me well-wishes, prayers, good intentions, or anything else that you think will help my academic writing get published. Thank you for your kindness, and now back to resilience. We are resilient. You are resilient. I am resilient too. We are all resilient and know how to persevere. That ability to overcome, to survive and thrive, is engrained in the very nature of our existence. During a pandemic, we are reminded daily that we have less control over our lives than what we normally think. To regain a sense of control we can choose to focus on the thoughts, “We are resilient. You are resilient. I am resilient too.” We can also choose to focus on the things we can control, instead of what is out of our control. The pandemic is out of our control, but preventing ‘pandemicmonium’, so I will coin, is in our control. How do we prevent pandemicmonium? I think by first becoming aware of how the pandemic affects us as individuals. Once we have awareness about how we think, feel, act, and interact then we can work on areas we want to improve. This is an individualized journey, and very different for each of us. However, do not forget that “We are resilient. You are resilient. I am resilient too.” That is the best advice I can give, is to empower you all to become aware and identify your own ways of coping with our world crisis. I also encourage us all, to the best of our abilities, to diffuse pandemicmonium. In closing, for now and a long while, I will share some related tidbits I wrote:
We are resilient. You are resilient. I am resilient too.
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