Two colleagues greeting one another with an elbow bump. They’re on the workplace. New Covid-19 handshakes. They’re celebrating collectively whereas working on the desktop computer.

One can’t say or write with assurance what the pandemic has brought on to the psyche of most individuals, but there is no such thing as a doubt that it has shaken the very edifice of human existence. From hope, be it false or actual, that the vaccine, which has begun to be administered, will restore optimism, to concern that dying is stalking every of us, the spectrum is huge.

Given the truth that all our lives, the best way we dwell and relate, has altered interminably, how do we glance to the longer term?

Each residence has been touched in a roundabout way by the pandemic. Among the evident methods embrace:

1. Needing lower than what we thought we couldn’t do with out.

2. A scarcity of separation between ‘me time’ and the time we provide work and others.

3. The dividing line between day and evening changing into unclear.

4. Discretionary spending struggling.

The checklist can go on. What’s it we’re then contending with?

The unawareness of what the morrow holds, planning for an unknown future being infructuous. Given this thought, I consider it might be wise to ‘skinny slice’ our existence and have a look at two important facets of residing, particularly if we’ve to outlive this onslaught. They’re ‘being resilient’ and ‘staying related.’

Resilience could be cultivated at many ranges, similar to, taking good care of ourselves, staying wholesome, consuming correctly, exercising, sleeping adequately, and guaranteeing that we generate and nurture peace inside and round us.

Relevance calls for we try to re-skill ourselves in no matter method we have to, not permit ourselves to be overwhelmed by rumour, rumours, flawed info and extreme pre-occupation with what would possibly occur.

Although the formulation isn’t easy, certainly if we try to maintain issues in perspective, stay centered, consider the right here and now, many people can safely journey out this storm and maybe rise out of the quagmire that’s enveloping us merely bruised however not incapacitated.

The author is an organisational and behavioural guide. He could be contacted at ttsrinath@gmail.com