Yes. Life is a meandering journey filled with twists, turns hopes, dreams, successes, failures victories and tragedies.
I think the trick is to arrange it all in to some kind of semblance of order and try and formulate a plan and a loose, flexible roadmap to keep us basically on course. The pandemic is a pretty unique situation in the sense that it affected such a sheer number of people from every corner of the globe, so it had a 'all in it together' vibe.
Peronal struggles, battles and upheavals in many ways can feel like lonely roads, causing scars that we must bear without others really knowing how it feels. Sometimes those scars make us something akin to veterans and give us a heroic inner strength to carry on, other times they touch us profoundly.
However stop this world I wanna get off is a request that will fall on deaf ears. So we carry on, embracing the whole montage of everything hoping that we can find meaning and a reason to be better.
Happy travelling my friend, journey well :)
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