Humanist

Create an emergency preparedness plan.

Many emergencies that we experience I have since learnt are not necessarily always sudden happenings.

I have since learnt that my most recent emergency, for example, that I am still suffering the consequences of  came in increments over decades.

Thinking back, the signs were there, I saw them, but I chose not to truly see them and to take protective measures to protect me and my loved ones mentally.

My initial reaction to the emergency was knee jerk and emotionally draining. And when I was visibly distraught I fed the monsters, for that is what they wanted. To see me crumble.

I am still a work in progress and am learning not to let them steal my joy. Am working on it and each day I get better handling the triggers and provocations.

The plan is to find joy in everyday living. And to mentally prepare that when tough times come, you have to fight for your mental wellness so you may get back to enjoying those little everyday things that are the meaning of life.

Yesterday, for example, as I took an evening walk to the grocers, I noticed that the monster was baiting me. They dumped debris at my driveway.

My old mentally unprepared self would have been triggered and may have sought confrontation. Which would have nurtured the mister and stole my joy.

Instead, I slept on it and  this morning I replaced my early morning exercise routine, stretching, with sweeping and clearing away the debris from my driveway.

Then I harvested pink roses for my niece who is ten today. She is an awesome girl. We are physically apart, she lives in the diaspora, with her papa, mama and three brothers to whom she is the big sister.

So, I could only give her the roses virtually. Be that as it may, my spirits are high for the roses are on my dining table reminding me of her beauty. 

And the scent from the roses is amazingly refreshing. A wonderful association to have to remind me of my lovely niece.

While I know the monsters are frantically and invested in finding a way to push me over the edge, am learning how to focus on love, my loved ones and loving self.

When I do that, from what I hear, I disarm and disorganize them. Apparently, because they are consumed by hate, their mental state is in disarray, it would appear.

My emergency preparedness plan has become prepare yourself mentally to have a mindset to look for and find the good and to respond with love.

Find that which I already know I  love and nurture it. And constantly work to discover and add on new things that I love to add on to my preparedness plan.

Guard you space, nurture your mind and have yourselves a peaceful and joys day today being you, being with those you love and doing what you love.

You my followers and readers are part of my preparedness plan and I thank you.

Don’t let them steal your joy.