Underlying Anger (minor COVID update?)
Wasn’t sure which title to go with so you get them both…. And on that note, let’s jump right in… If you’ve read my previous posts you’ll know about my COVID and blood clotting near misses. Going from completely healthy and gearing up for martial arts competing to not being allowed to walk more than three blocks in a day, well, it’s been a challenge. So that will earn me understatement of the year, I think. It’s hard to get your head around the ‘not allowed to do the stuff for your own good’ mentality. I pushed limits a few times to my own detriment and boy did I feel those repercussions. Usually lasting days of pain. You learn quickly when the teacher is agony. So going from being the fiercely independent and driven person to a meeker version of myself, being told what I can and cannot do, and of course pushing those boundaries to my detriment (see previous paragraph) has really done a number on my psyche. I noticed e...