What its like to be an essential worker...
I am classified as an essential worker. While it is good for me to get out of the house and into the office. After this extended time I am starting to see something that I am not sure people expected. The stress from having to come into the office people expected. I don’t think people thought about the affects of seeing the same people everyday would have on essential workers.
The conversations get to be the about the same thing or close to it. It's either about the current situation going on in the news or the pandemic. There are the occasions where you get a conversation outside of those and those conversations you cherish. This whole thing worries me, if this continues to stay like this for a long time.
At least for me, I am worried for a few reasons. I am afraid I will get very resentful of the people that I see everyday. I am worried that I will be come Jaded to their life and what they are going through. I am worried that we will get frustrated with each other and our business relationship will never be the same.
I can feel and see that being around the same people everyday is getting to me and my coworkers. It seems that there is nothing different from the day before to the day after and this feels and looks like a very bleak future. There is no really change, there are a few people that come by but that is slim. There are the random day to day curbside pick ups. However, there is no real rotation of personal and it feels like it is taking a toll on the essential staff.
We try are best to keep things as light as we can. We joke and kid with each other and find things to make the day more enjoyable, but will that last long enough to make it through this. The tensions could be building and we really don’t see that. I know the tension of this pandemic is building in me and if as a human it is building in me, I can suspect it is building in others.
It is not just the pandemic, it is the social tension that is building in people as well. Everyone is tired of the status quo, and you can see it in the news and in just about every media outlet. The world is in chaos and there doesn’t seem to be an end in site. It feels that we are at war, war with ourselves, war with each other and war with other countries.
Who am I kidding, this just could be how I am feeling and everyone else on the planet could be perfectly fine with everything. I don’t think that is the case but who knows. I only get to see what is in the news and talk to a select few people because of the pandemic.
How are we going to make it though this and still have lasting relationships with each other, stable relationship with other countries and still be able to do business?
I am not sure but it starts with us. We must vote, we must remind ourselves that we are not going though this alone and we must remember to treat others the best we can. If I am to make it though this I must do my best to be the best person I can to all that I meet and everyone that I can.
Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this and it got you thinking. Feel free to commit and lets have the conversation here. As always please take care of yourself and each other.
