{"id":756,"date":"2020-11-13T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/notredamenow\/?p=756"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:42:17","slug":"lockdown-a-time-to-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/notredamenow\/2020\/11\/13\/lockdown-a-time-to-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown: A time to reflect."},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/strong>Shower ” by Lucy Kelly<\/b><\/p>\n

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Hey, you’ll never guess what I’ve done. I showered today! It might not a big deal to you but it is for me. What’s so special about a shower? New bathroom? New shampoo perhaps?<\/p>\n

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What could possibly make that exciting?<\/p>\n

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Well, to me, it’s a symbol of progress. During the first month, everything was chaos and uncertainty. The second was when my energy started drifting away. By the third month, I couldn’t get out of bed.<\/div>\n
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It had all suddenly caught up with me, the loneliness and emptiness, the isolation. I slept all day and stared at the ceiling all night.<\/div>\n
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what’s the point?<\/div>\n
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I can’t do anything right, I can’t even get myself dressed. I’m done. I \u00a0give up.<\/div>\n
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Then something strange happened.<\/div>\n
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A beam of light in the form of a text message. A picture to be exact. It was me, I was smiling stood In front of a building with the words ” HAPPINESS…. IS A POINT OF VIEW” plastered across it.<\/div>\n
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I couldn’t shake those words from my mind that night. Was I really in charge, could I really decide how my life would go?<\/div>\n
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I woke the next morning and got out of bed for the first time in three days.<\/div>\n
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By that Friday I got properly dressed for the first time in a fortnight.<\/p>\n

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You know, that sign was right. Happiness is a point of view. A point of view that starts with you taking care of yourself, and if that means forcing yourself to get up, showered and dressed then that’s what you do.<\/div>\n
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So, you’ll never guess what I’m doing tomorrow.<\/div>\n
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I’m going for a shower.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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