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A Month of Hope and Silver Linings: Promposity April Writing Challenge
The April Promposity writing challenge is one of positivity and inspiration
It has been a stressful time for all of us. It seems, at least to me, as if this new coronavirus appeared out of nowhere. To be fair, I suppose I knew of it on the periphery of my attention, but relegated it to the same category as Ebola or malaria, serious diseases but ones that occurred in other countries far away.
By the time I realized how serious the illness was, they were already recommending that people stay away from large crowds and within days we were told it was best to stay home. It wasn’t more than another week before everything had shut down with the exception of grocery stores and pharmacies and we had been put on lock down, at least in Illinois.
Part of what made this so devastating to me, in addition to the social isolation, was the fact that it hit everywhere. There wasn’t anywhere that we could look to in order to reassure ourselves that it was just our small pocket of the world, and other places would be sending relief and working on our behalf to free us from this frightening illness. We were all in the same boat.
Things went further south when I began to become ill, despite about a week of denial…
