With news of another lockdown, we’re all feeling a bit fed up, frustrated, and deflated. Especially those of us with kids who once again take on the task of home schooling. For me this means two children at home 24/7 as a single parent and it would seem, harassment by bacon. A few hours into the first day of lockdown, I had been harassed for bacon easily over 20 times- my daughter seems to get stuck in endless bacon loops in her brain. And yet she has the right idea.
Remember those brutal mornings where you wake when it’s still dark, get rudely yanked out of a gentle slumber by an alarm demanding immediate attention. Before you cajole your kids along who don’t seem to understand the concept of hurrying and spend hours on every task. By the time you drop them off at school, you feel like you need a bottle of gin because you’ve been through the wars.
‘If only I could have a gentler, slower start to my days’ you’ve wished on some many occasions. Well now you can. Unless you’re one of the those people who still has to be up early to go to work in which case don’t bother reading the rest of this!
You can wake up naturally with the morning light. You can go back to bed with your morning cup of tea or coffee. You can stay in your pjs until whenever you like.
You have the time to cook yourself a leisurely breakfast, bacon, fit for a queen and you have the time to eat it slowly doing nothing else, savoring every bite .
You can spend hours by the window watching the snow fall softly as me and my dog did the other day.
You can all go out and meander in nature spending hours absorbed in all the wonder it offers.
You can all potter around in a relaxed fashion indulging in whatever takes your fancy at that moment.
You can choose to educate and teach your children all about the magic of the world we live in, it doesn’t need to just be maths and English sat at a table in a confined fashion.
In this slowness, the stress and pressure disappears and you find yourself connecting and laughing more as a family than ever before. Less tensions, less harshness once you get into the rhythm of slow.
Your body starts to relax, it’s like a giant exhale as finally you find your own pace and rhythm, rather than the harsh one society has imposed on us.
You may feel as if you’ve lost your freedom but actually you are finally, for the first time in your life, experiencing true freedom. From time and from a restricting, relentless routine.
You get to savor the taste of slow. So enjoy it and make the most of this opportunity.
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