Pivot (do you hate that word now too?). Improvise, adapt, and overcome (from the Marines). Be Zen (Lao Tzu). “Honey, relax!” (my wife). Pretty good coping tools, and I’ve used them all.
I’ve been using them regularly over the past two years, and the hardest part is knowing we are going to continue to deal with COVID-19 variants and surges (two more words to hate) for probably the rest of our lives. It’s hard not to become sad, anxious and depressed.
That being said, I am not going to let this ruin the rest of my life, because I’m a fighter. But I’m not stupid enough to bring a knife to a gunfight and COVID-19 has some very big guns. “Discretion is the better part of valor” comes to mind when I think of going out.
