Dear Tiffany:

When we don’t have the life we want available, we have to make do with the life that is available to us. In these pandemic times, “music.. parades, the food, the friendly people” are not available, and if available, we shouldn’t participate in any non socially distant activities. The life available to you at this time is that walk you mentioned, exercise, you can add the (socially distant) hiking, canoeing, and swimming that you like, also the mindfulness, some Zoom meetups with friends, and your paid job from home. And your husband, he is too part of the life available to you. Change your attitude regarding the life that is available to you. Don’t compare it to how it was for you in New Orleans 2015-16 and during visits.

I had the best time in my life in New York City- I was young, full of hope, a new life, new place, unlike anything I knew before. I felt that it was my New Beginning. And it was until I brought my old troubles to NYC. To escape the troubles, I flew next to New Orleans… Fast forward, I was back in NYC, years later, and I couldn’t believe it was the same place I fell so in love with earlier, when I was  younger.

I realized then, that what gives a place its magic is not  so much what the place offers, but the youth experienced in that place, the hopes and dreams that give the place its colors, its light, its magic.

Awaken your youth where you are, in Pensacola, and you will no longer feel that life is passing you by.

anita

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