Are you buried? Or just planted?

Death anniversaries (Deathaversaries) can be really hard. All of us, collectively, are moving closer to the 2 year anniversary of the start of the global pandemic. TWO YEARS. Two years since literally everything changed. Is there a place in your life that hasn’t been touched by the pandemic? 

Two years in, much has been lost. There are 5,557,255 dead as of 19 January 2022. And the Shadowlosses we’ve shouldered amidst all of this are incalculable. Lost jobs, lost relationships, lost dreams, lost plans, lost goals, lost moments.

If you’ve been feeling like you’re underground, completely buried by the intensity of the pandemic, you are not alone. It’s normal to feel like that. I want to offer you a reframe that at the very least, might help you get through another day or another week. 

Have you been buried or planted?

Both are not that different from each other. When you are planted, it takes awhile before you sprout, and find the light. It’s dark and heavy until you do. If you feel like you’ve been buried, maybe you’ve just been planted. 

You’ll grow and bloom again, I promise. Nature is unpredictable though, and she cannot give you an exact growth date. When you *DO* start to grow again, you might find you’ve been planted somewhere completely new. It can be a shock to find yourself in a garden you’ve never been to before. Just because something is new, doesn’t mean it’s bad.

Here’s to seeing ourselves as seeds, holding immense growth within. The future will get brighter, and you will find the light.