How I coped with 2020, a short thread.

In mid 2020, after an experience of depression, I agreed with my therapist that I would stop using the word "should".

It was not my responsibility to decide right and wrong, or suffer the consequences.

It liberated me from many things.

While I hated what was happening with #brexit and #COVID19, I could take a step back and not take it personally.

My role was to look after myself, my family and my community, not stress about what others were doing.

I stopped listening to #r4today programme (designed to stress people like me), and focused on what I could achieve, not what others were not achieving.

It was liberating.

I think the way the covid and brexit politics has been handled is terrible. I believe the people involved are narcissistic, small-minded and terrible representatives of my country, but they are there because others put them there.

I can't hate them, I need to deal with it

So, I plan to change things in 2021 but starting with myself, not telling others what they SHOULD do.

I will be better, kinder, more supportive and reduce my environmental impact.

My family will help. My community will too

I hope others may join me by looking at themselves first, and discovering what WE can achieve through our own actions, not shouting at others.

And make 2021 the start of something better.

It may not be much, but it helped me.