It's hard to believe that we have now officially been living under some form of COVID-19 restrictions for over a year - and what a year it's been! However, despite the difficulties (and not to underestimate the hardship endured by people), we have also seen the emergence of a thoughtfulness and resilience, that spark of humanity, which has caused us to reach out to each other and try and make things better, even in a little way (for example, check out this virtual world tour through other people's windows!) - I honestly feel that so much good is going to come from all of this, even though there's a lot of hurt and pain and damage that also needs to be addressed. I'm convinced that this pandemic has brought out the very best in people, and it has shown us what is really important to us. At the same time, it has exposed areas in individual lives and in society in general that we had always pretended not to notice or would prefer not to see, which has been traumatic in its own way. It has been a reckoning of sorts, uncomfortable and even unbearable for some, but perhaps this realization can be used to improve those aspects of our immediate and wider environment that we had previously tried to hide or ignore - this experience has been a real eye-opener for all of us and it's up to each individual not only to acknowledge the suffering, but also, to take the good from what we've had to endure. It's not an easy process, for sure, but it could be a very worthwhile one
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