Lent Is Starting Soon.

 A time of reflection ahead for many.

Gosh, that time of the year again. Who would have believed it? The year we have had and that we are trying to remand to history has had a tenuous grip on all of us. Corona, American elections and lockdowns.

Normally the ' lent'ers ' make a big effort to deprive themselves of a favourite food, drink or habit hoping that it will wipe away numerous sins. Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn't. This past year has seen many of us deprived of favourite things and surely it won't be looked upon strangely from those lofty pearly heights if we, for a change, use lent to indulge in something that gives us happiness.

We all need cheering up and a push out of our collective doldrums. A way to distract ourselves from the reality ( although one of the best things about this world wide slow-down is the fact that we have had more time to just be ) of dealing with another invisible being. A foe this time but still, hard to fight something we can't see.

Leaving that ever present feeling of guilt behind could be a good start. How many times during the lockdown have I caught myself worrying about not doing more. Crazy because we weren't allowed to do more yet, instead of enjoying the precious down time, I worried about what I should have been doing. Now that is a waste of time and therefore I think a forty day stint of dropping guilt in all its guises might be a better way to wipe our celestial slate clean.

There will come a time when we will fondly recall the year 2020 and reminisce fondly about those magical weeks that allowed us the luxury of stepping off our individual hamster wheel. So, let's savour this last stretch of lockdown instead of climbing the walls hankering after a normality that is a re-run of the endless loops on hamster wheels...

Biggi