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Every single day is the same as the pandemic has dragged on you've probably found yourself asking one question over and over again to anyone who will listen even to yourself. It's a simple but essential one. What day is it with less travel with no meetings and for many of us not even a commute to work time and place seem to have slowed down or merged the week and weekend blur the hours both drag and go by in an instant. All is one where like that character.
In the new movie Palm Springs trapped in some sort of space continuum where every day is the same day on repeat and while this may seem miserable you may also find yourself coming to almost enjoy it as the other character in that movie did is it really so bad to spend all this time with your family? Is it really so bad to live a quieter slower life? Yes. It is costing you money. It's canceling your plans. It's disrupting so much and yet all things that go on long enough with
Time even this distress has become muted even Pleasant perhaps it was this very feeling that Marcus Aurelius was referring to in meditations as he reflected on both the current moment going through a plague and the Decades of his youth waiting to become emperor. Everything has always been the same. He said and keeps recurring it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or 200 were in an infinite period that the longest-lived and those who will die.
Just lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up since that is all that you have and what you do not have you cannot lose Marcus talked about how it didn't matter whether you live to be 40 or 400 every day was the same. It was all the same in the end. So yes, this whole thing is strange and surreal. It's at times terrifying and not without its heart breaks, but it also just is each day. We wake up and face another whether it will Mark our 90th day in quarantine or the
start of 90 more who can say and what does it matter today is what's in front of us, whatever day of the week. It happens to be it can be wonderful. You can be enough if we choose.
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