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Positively Weightless

A healthy life not only means physically healthy, but mentally as well. Healthy eating, healthy exercising habits, and a positive attitude are all important and help maintain balance in life. I decided to combine my love of writing and my positivity to change the world in hopes that any reader can also become positively weightless, and lead them to a healthy life.

First I wanted to start today's post off by saying I hope you all are staying happy and healthy. I decided to take last week off of posting because it was Father's Day. I know things in the country are starting to phase back into normal here, in some places that has not had the best results, but that is not my point. Tomorrow I head back into the office after working from home for just over three months. I am excited to get back into a somewhat normal routine on one hand, but on another I am nervous to go back to exposing myself and the ones I live with, but my bosses have made sure to have a plan in place we are all comfortable with. It is nice to have a job that my feelings are considered. I am sure during this pandemic a lot of people can not say the same. With all of that being said I wanted to take some time to talk about choices today.

This page is no stranger to talking about the choices we all make as individuals and the effect they can have on others. I am going to really show my nerd side here and bring up a videogame I have certainly mentioned in the past: Undertale. I am not going to go too into details on the game's plot itself here, but the game overall depends on the choices you make. To get the most happy ending you have to choose to not hurt anything you come across and take a handful of steps that lead to that ending. If you kill even one enemy during your journey it completely alters the ending of your game and it is impossible to get the true pacifist route completed. On the other hand you can choose the exact opposite route, killing every enemy you come across. That is the genocide route. Each route has completely different stories and endings. One small choice has the ability to alter the outcome of the game. I think it is a lovely story on the pacifist route, and the genocide route is equally as horrific. I completed both in the last few weeks and I can say I much prefer the pacifist route. But my entire point of bringing this game up is to show that if small choices can completely alter the lives of fictional characters, they surely can have the same effect in real life.

Most importantly over everything I want to do my part to spread the word that our choices, both big and small, can play a huge roll into the lives of not only ourselves but others as well. If you are at the grocery store and there are only two loaves of bread left and you decide to buy both, even though you only need one, that could have taken that food directly off the table of someone who was desperate for it. Sometimes we drive a little recklessly because we are running late for work and your actions can very much have consequences for the other drivers on the road. Overall it is important to realize that you are not always the only person you are making decisions for both directly and indirectly. Sure, not everything has to be complicated and a lot of things will not necessarily have that kind of domino effect, but why not just be conscious of others?

Maybe I am beating a dead horse here, but our choices have very much been reflecting the world around us lately. I understand people are on different sides of the argument when it comes to dealing with this pandemic, but I think it is clear what the choices of some people in certain states have lead to. Recklessly carrying on as if nothing is happening is causing a lot of people to get sick again. I also have to say that I understand that people are very much for or against having to wear a mask in public, and some are making that choice to disregard the advice and not wear one. What people are not understanding is that choice is not just effecting you. You are not keeping only yourself safe by wearing one, but the rest of the people around you as well. I am sure someone is reading this thinking about all the data showing it might not even be helping at all. What I say to that is even if it isn't helping anything at all, how much of an inconvenience can having to wear one really be causing you? I am not here to cause a debate on wearing them at all. I am just hoping to make sure people are aware that these are the kinds of choices that could be making or breaking this pandemic. This is a pretty dark way of putting it, but choose the pacifist route over the genocide route.

I want you to try and picture a world where everyone is conscious of others. Everyone worked together for the benefit of the whole, not just as an individual. I realize this is physically impossible but humor me here. If every last person had social distanced and stayed home other than for essentials the way we should have this pandemic would likely be next to gone by now. If everyone did that back in March then we would have most likely been back to our normal routines a lot sooner than now. Really take some time to think about that. You may not think your actions have that much power, and individually you are probably right, but add them all together as small pieces of one big whole and you have this massive effect. All I am asking you to do is consider this when you make choices. Things have been pretty heavy really for the last three months, so I think I am going to shake things up a little and lighten the mood next week with a poetry book review. Until then I hope you all stay happy and healthy and safe!
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The last few weeks have been pretty heavy, so I wanted to make this week's post something light and less serious. When the Coronavirus first broke out and people started panicking I wrote a post about what fear can do in our lives. One of the major things was that grocery stores looked apocalyptic with the shelves completely bare of most essentials. That lead a lot of us to get creative not only for fun once we were stuck in our homes for social distancing. I also mentioned these things a few weeks ago in my post about our ways of coping. I figured why not follow up with all of that and talk about the pros of being quarantined for so long, rather than focusing on the cons.
 
Back when the supermarkets were looking scarce, it made me turn to making more of our own food. If you know me at all you know I always do a Sunday meal prep, except that week there was literally no excess food in the store. I ended up having to bring peanut butter and slices of bread to work to make toast for my lunch that week, and the bread was homemade. We have a bread machine so I just used that. But that is what prompted me to start making a lot of things from scratch. Through this social distancing period I have baked and cooked from scratch more than I think I have in the last couple of years combined! I encouraged you readers a few weeks back to do just this. Making your own food gives you a huge feeling of accomplishment. Yesterday I made my very first loaf of sourdough bread from scratch, which was a very long and tedious process, but when I had avocado toast on it this morning, it was even more exciting to eat because it was a result of all that love I put into it. I have made homemade gnocchi twice, cupcakes from scratch, and numerous other homemade recipes. My garden isn't producing vegetables just yet but I can tell you tomatoes fresh from the garden just taste so much better. When you start making and producing your own food, it gives you a much bigger appreciation for what goes into it. I am not a parent, but I feel like letting your kids help in the kitchen helps start this appreciation within them as well.

Although gardening and cooking are also considered hobbies, I wanted to go into other kinds of hobbies as well. That has been a huge plus for me for being home so much more as well. I have been reading so much more than I used to. In the process I found a new series of books that may have taken over as my favorite series, and overall just found a love of fiction again. I even decided to read a lot more poetry and as a result I have been writing a lot more poetry as well. I have decided to venture into writing other forms that I never really thought I would enjoy previously. I am considering reviewing the poetry book I am currently reading in a future post as well. It has really been quite a luxury to have all this time to read books just for pleasure (yes college professors I am looking at you making us read 200 pages of dry novels in a 2 day span) and to be able to dedicate a good amount of time writing as well. Pictured are all the books I have finished and the one I am currently reading since this social distancing began, and my poetry notebook (shoutout to Nicole for the amazing birthday gift!) that I write in. When life gets really busy it is so easy to let these kinds of things get pushed aside until they are almost the forgotten dusty toy in the back of our closet shelf. I am sure that is an even bigger issue for people with spouses and/or kids. If you have that extra time take it, because you may only have that opportunity for so long.

So what is my point in telling you about all I have been doing since I have been staying at home to social distance? Well I am hoping that my positive outlook on it will get a positive outlook out of you as well. Look, I get that this has not been a walk in the park for many. I am very much an introvert so I haven't minded the time at home, but I can understand why it might be challenging for an extrovert. But I am encouraging you to think about the things you got done in this time. Maybe you thoroughly cleaned your house for the first time in years and decluttered everything. Maybe you also read a lot more in this time frame, or even just read a new book that has been sitting on your nightstand for months but you never had time to start. Maybe you have some extra time to try a new recipe or bake something from scratch. Heck I even find it great that I am home can go get these produce boxes which I recently discovered. Any small perk is a plus in my book! I am sure you can think of at least one thing that you were able to do during this time that you wouldn't have had time for otherwise.

Overall I am just encouraging you all to be grateful for this time you have had, even if you had to be forced into it kicking and screaming. I will be honest when I first was sent to work from home I did not even remotely imagine I would still be at home in June, three months later. I am not complaining though. I am grateful that I have a job that I am overall able to do from home pretty efficiently and that other than the location change, things went on fairly normally. In the process I have spent so much time with my family. The virus has delayed my moving out plans a bit more unfortunately, but once I am in my own place I won't have nearly as much time with them so this was a nice thing. I even talked to my sister a lot more often on the phone during this time frame. Those are especially the things that we can be grateful for. Take some time to consider yours and consider them before you complain about not being able to go the the gym still or your vacation being postponed. Most importantly, the extra time we have had to do these things are just an extra perk to the bigger picture which has been keeping ourselves and others safe during this global pandemic. 
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Last week I talked about how we truly can never live in one another's shoes, and because of that we should shed compassion on others. That still remains true of course, but I wanted to discuss this a little further this week. The week before that I also talked about how we all cope with things differently and the best way we know how. I think over the past week it became clear to me that I needed to touch on those things just a bit more and in a different light. 

Social media is a really great thing for so many reasons. We can stay in touch with loved ones who do not live close to us. We get to share the reasons we laugh, cry, or what keeps us up at night. We can find recommendations for a specific service we need, see our friend's new baby that lives in another country, or most importantly today we can spread awareness to social injustices and speak to others to inform and educate them. With all the great social media can bring, it also can bring some serious negatives. Over the past week I have seen so many people attacking or being attacked because of their lack of posting about certain things. Our feeds have been full of news and statements about injustices in this country right now, which is great. It is something that we should be talking about and shouldn't just dust under the rug, but is a lack of one individual’s social media presence on the issue really as negative as it is made out to be?

Just as I talked about in a previous post about coping with the Coronavirus, we all cope differently. To some of us that means that we post all over the internet to spread awareness on the issue. To others, like myself,  it means writing a blog to spread my message of love and positivity the best way I know how. To others it means staying silent on social media, but having conversations in real life, protesting, donating to organizations, supporting Black owned businesses, and/or reaching out to others to offer support. In my opinion, none of these are any better or worse than the others. What difference does it make how we fight for a cause, as long as we are fighting for it? Why is a post on social media the only way some believe that you believe in fighting for the issue? Don't get me wrong I (very obviously as someone who writes a blog like this) wholeheartedly believe in the power of words, but in some situations actual action can outweigh them. Anyone can type up a social media post, hit send, close their phone/laptop, and move on with their day completely forgetting the issue at hand.

So what is my point in writing all of this you might be wondering? Well I want to encourage you all to just be kinder to one another and truly listen. If someone hasn't said anything on their Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter about the injustices in this country do not assume it is because they are on the wrong side. That person who has stayed silent on social media may have just had a hard conversation with someone they love about the issue. Another one may have just donated the little extra money they had in their bank account to an organization that is helping the cause. Never assume. Some people, very much like myself, really don't post about politics or current events on their pages at all. I personally have made an exception to that rule for this specific movement because I feel pretty strongly, but that does not mean everyone will. 

Choose to believe the best in people even though I know with everything circulating the internet right now that gets harder and harder to do. Seek ways to better yourself and pass those resources along to the ones you love, hoping they will better themselves too. If you donate to a cause, it isn't any more or less impactful because you told your social media following. I am a strong believer as I said in the power of words, but in certain cases words alone do not have the power to change the world. Why don't we stop being judgmental of others because of what they choose to share (or not share) with the rest of the world. I agree that now is not a time to be silent, but speaking up has many different forms. Just because someone is silent on social media, does not mean they are being silent in the world. Keep spreading love to everyone around you, both on social media and in your physical lives. We each have the power to do our part to change the world so instead of attacking each other, let's praise each other for the things we do and continue to do for this world and for future generations.
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