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COVID-19 and Unique Opportunities for Personal Growth
When the universe forces us to do things we’ve been meaning to do but kept putting off
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger — but recognize the opportunity.”― John F. Kennedy
No matter who you are, there is no escaping the fact that COVID-19 has changed your life. It’s taken away certainty, freedom, and any sense of normalcy. However, there is no denying that the one thing that this novel Coronavirus has given back to us — is time.
It’s almost as if the universe got sick of all the times it heard us say, “If only I had the time, I would…”
COVID-19 has literally stripped away all non-essential activity and said, “Well, you always said you have no time. Here, I’m giving you all the time in the world! What are you going to do with it!?”
A month ago, if someone had said to us that we would have sixty more hours of free time a week, we would have been overjoyed — our minds brimming with ideas on what we would do with that time. Yet, when…
