I am so sore this morning! But it’s a good soreness: it’s that muscular soreness from truly good exercise — something I hadn’t experienced in a while and that, on the contrary, unfortunately, had lately been supplanted by pains & aches due to stress & non-ergonomic setups from my home-office. But this morning I’m sore because I’m climbing again!
Often, I realize how important something is to me not simply when I lose it but when I find it again after having lost it.
This is what I’ve been experiencing this week.
As many of my friends and myself are now fully-COVID-vaccinated, I am coming out of my isolation which, I admit, has been extreme for over a year. Sailing again last Sunday, rock climbing at the gym again Tuesday & Wednesday, and then even dinner at a (vaccinated) friends’ place yesterday evening: I truly feel like I’m coming back to life. Last night, I got the best night’s sleep that I can remember in ages!
It’s not that I didn’t realize the importance of friendship and community or social interactions before — on the contrary, I’ve always valued friendship very highly. But when COVID-19 hit early in 2020, something inside of me switched off. And now, thanks to the vaccine and numbers improving, and springtime, I feel like something has switched back on inside of me: and this switching on is coming from the friends and communities around me, from the people with whom I’m interacting in person again. Lovely and scary at the same time…
But yay for this morning’s soreness!
The Little Prince and the Fox 