COVID and Relationships

There are no objective experiences in life. Some situations can appear incredibly awful and emotionally challenging for someone, while for others decently good.

This difference comes from the conscious and unconscious meanings we attach to whatever happens to us. Meanings mainly based on many different variables such as background, inner values and beliefs, and memories.

In the last 12 months, the meaning of the word "relationships", has dramatically changed. The physical connection we usually had with our friends, family, colleagues, and partners suddenly changed.

We ended up unable to hug the people we love, to visit them, to spend time with them when we want and as we want. The relationship with our workplace has changed. We miss our messy desk at the office; we miss the colleagues we spend lunchtime with, and it's weird, we also miss those Monday morning meetings, where the time was slow and tedious as hell but was a time was spent with real people and not with cold virtual images on Zoom.

The Pandemic COVID-19 changed the world; it changed us from the inside out, but still the meaning each one of us is attaching to what's happening is undoubtedly different.

Because Covid-19, I was able to re-establish some important relationships in my life. Connections that for me by living abroad for most of my life, were kind of lost. I had the opportunity to re-evaluate those relationships and dedicate quality time to rebuild them.

No doubt Covid has destroyed families, businesses and people's minds like anything else probably in the last 100 years but also allowed many people to understand the real value of the word relationship.

We often take the most important relationships in our life for granted. Covid taught us that nothing is sure in life, and nothing is forever, what we have today we might lose tomorrow, so, start today to take care of all your relationships as the most precious thing you have.