I might skip yoga today, I have a really good reason… I don’t want to change out of normal clothes. You see today is the first day in idontknowhowlong that i have normal clothes on. Normal as in jeans and a sweater. But my hair is NOT in a knot on my head and i have makeup on. And if I decide to do yoga, I have to put workout clothes on and put my hair up. This is quarantine life.
OK so my family isn’t in actual quarantine, but in the midst of the global pandemic of the COVID 19 virus, we’re all supposed to stay home as much as possible. It was almost three weeks ago that I was sent home from work, deemed “non-essential”, and have really been home ever since, other than a couple of trips to the store for necessary items. Today we visited a local farm that set up an event for cars to drive through and get to look at farm equipment and animals, providing you stay in the vehicle. Who would’ve thought, a few months ago, that we’d now be in a time where driving through a farm to view tractors and goats from our vehicles, with people wearing homemade face masks handing out donuts from a basket attached to a 6 foot pole, is the highlight of the week? The biggest outing most of us have had in weeks. It was a wonderful event, a bright spot for the community, however a sobering picture of the new reality we’re living in.
And so, back to my original point, I got dressed “up” (in these times) to go to a farm and stay in my car. And I feel a little more normal today. So, as much as I’ve been loving my daily yoga and the sudden time to do it, I might forgo the exercise for a little bit of feeling “normal”. Because in these times of crisis and sickness and fear and isolation, a little bit of normal is sometimes all we have to hold on to.