![]() ![]() This is going to be a life-changing experience for some. Some of us, by the end of this pandemic, will have had COVID, some of us will not. ![]() This is extremely important, and here are some of my stories about this: There was a great quote by someone early in the pandemic that we are all in the same storm but we are not all in the same boat. So here are a few things that happened during this pandemic that I wanted to write down and note. I’ll explore this later.Īnyway, this article is about perspective… changes in perspective the pandemic has given me, and it’s personal and not the generic things I hear people say, usually. But post-traumatic growth is different from resilience apparently. Tragic optimism helps facilitate this: by accepting and sitting with the distressing feelings the pandemic has foisted upon us, we can use them as fodder for personal development.” ( quote from here). “In contrast, however, others find trauma gives them a new lease on life, an altered perspective known as post-traumatic growth. Interestingly, I was planning to write this article anyway, on the perspective the pandemic has given me, and then I noticed this new term, post-traumatic growth (in contrast? to post-traumatic stress): Apparently, a recent UK study on wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that gratitude (yes, I can attest to this one!) and tragic optimism correlated with improved wellbeing. Apparently “ To be tragically optimistic is a happy medium where instead of crushing our spirit, difficulties and challenges provide us with a learning moment”. And then there is a term called “tragic optimism” which is meant to counter that. I was recently in a private conversation, discussing how we would all recover/heal from this pandemic, the impact on the elderly and children especially, and how I was concerned by people who wanted to just be positive and move on without considering the need to grieve in order to heal? And I learned from Mays’s webinar that there is a term called “toxic positivity”, which describes what I was talking about. The one I want to focus on today is that of “tragic optimism”. Yesterday, in a talk by the wonderful Mays Imad on healing, hope and recovery, and I was inspired by several things. ![]()
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