This weekend I was driving home from the grocery store and I noticed power lines down across the road I go home. I called it into the fire department. They were there in 20 min and said it would be a few hours so to go to the other side to get in (which meant drive up and over the hill to get to the other entrance). No one wore masks and they came right up to my car to talk to me…it was a little odd and yet totally normal in the world before all of this.
I drove the 45 min to the other side of the road and they had that blocked off too. People got out of their cars to see what happened, no masks, people coming right up to you asking what is going on and when we would be let in. We all wanted to get home or get to where we were going.
Life was going on, like there was no coronavirus.
This went on all day as the power lines were down and they were cutting down trees from about 10am to after 5pm, power was out for many people, internet was out and people were walking around…this was a life situation…and it trumped coronavirus.
A person asked if they could use my phone, none of us had phone service so I didn’t and I thought…how odd that is the first time anyone has wanted to touch my phone in a while.
It was like in the case of daily stress, we forgot the map for 6 feet apart. There was no social distancing of anyone except at one point a Santa Cruz worker pulled a gaiter up, then looked around and realized he was the only one.
The thing is, we didn’t grow up with a pandemic, and our brains aren’t wired to hold two traumas at once. In homeopathic medicine, we often see that one illness takes precedent when someone gets sick. For example, if someone gets Lyme disease, their allergies go away for a while or if someone gets the flu, they don’t get a migraine as well.
And it made me think, this is normal and we need a new map for this as fire season and other traumas are coming and we are going to need to find ways to support and communicate with one another effectively.
We need new maps for what is coming…
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