Embracing Unfinished Thoughts: Revisiting and Publishing Past Reflections

Reflecting on past writings and the courage to share unfinished thoughts as part of personal growth.

I was looking through some unpublished posts I had written when I first started the blog and came across this one. I’m not sure why I didn’t publish it. It’s short and sweet, but maybe it’s not informative? Or maybe I just didn’t feel it was relevant, perhaps? I don’t know, but I’m publishing it now, perhaps as a reminder of what we went through at the time of Covid-19, and maybe it’s a nudge to the fact that it could happen again. Anyway, it’s just a couple of minutes of your time. Enjoy xx

“We are living in unprecedented times… I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen those words recently. But it is a strange and eerie place we live in at the moment. The first few weeks of lockdown were odd, it felt like I was in a Zombie Apocalypse film, I liken it to 28 Days Later and Contagion. On the flip side, I have also been fascinated by the images where nature has taken back some of what was once hers. There have been beautiful images of the canals in Venice showing crystal clear waters and even fish. Equally beautiful images of deer along the streets in a city, I forget which one, but it is lovely to see and who can forget the town in Wales taken over by goats! I do feel that this is one of nature’s ways of saying, “I’ve had enough, I let you have too much and now I’m taking something back!”. I hope I’m right in saying that the ozone layer was starting to repair itself quicker – I could have read that bit wrong, though. But, wouldn’t it be nice?

I also find it interesting how it has been remarked that the carbon levels have gone down considerably, whilst big businesses aren’t pumping out the volume of pollutants they once were and that air and freight travel has been significantly reduced. It is also obvious from images of once-polluted cities, where millions of vehicles travel daily, now with smog-free air, that we have a lot to answer for! Farmers can now say they told us it wasn’t them, and it’s interesting how much we now realise we need them. I’m a firm advocate for buying local and in season. Food tastes so much better fresh and local. I do like the odd exotic fruit and such like, but I do try on the whole to be a carbon-friendly/neutral as is practicable and budget friendly! We none of us are perfect, but we just need to do our little bit, and that is something to be counted.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not a hippy, no offence meant but I can’t think of any other word I can use here and I like Hippies by the way, I kind of have to my dad was sort of one once, but it really does irritate me that we still don’t seem to have learnt this is a precious planet and its resources are finite. I see images strewn over the front pages of newspapers and posted on the internet of beaches and parks covered in litter. Are we so fundamentally uncaring and, dare I say, lazy that we can’t take our litter home with us? Do we really need to leave that amount of waste everywhere we go? Are we so self-important that we can’t do the simplest of things and care for the area we’ve just visited? It seems not. And yes, not everyone is tarred with the same brush, but there are an awful lot of people out there who are! We all need to do our bit, and this means clearing up after ourselves, don’t you think?

Social distancing and Super Saturday

Can we not seem to heed the guidance given regarding socially distancing? 2 metres isn’t that much to be honest, and you can hold a conversation with someone in a park quite easily. I do worry about social distancing and ‘Super Saturday’ now that the pubs are open. I have to say I wasn’t at all surprised at the level of stupidity shown by some people out partying and boozing the first weekend out after easing of lockdown, this inability to follow guidance has shown itself so many times of late, packed beaches and tourist hot spots ring a bell, anyone?! I believe we need to take this time to reassess our lives and how we can achieve what we want without doing further damage. The R number is not fictitious; it’s real, and a little too close to where we don’t want it to be. A little common sense is all we need, maybe not all the time, after all, we’re only human.”

Stay safe and well, everyone.

Becks xo