Insecurities from “The VID”: Now is not the time to Drown our Instincts.

A nurse friend of mine has become so fully adapted to the new abnormal that she and her colleagues have adopted the simplified way to describe the pandemic.

“I don’t even remember what life was like before ‘The VID,’” she texted the other day.

Another friend of mine has started a social media campaign to boycott any company that uses the words “unprecedented” or “challenging times” in their advertising.

What do both of my friends know that many of us could probably learn from them? They have accepted reality. The truth is as basic as it is life-changing. It is what it is.

It is what it is? How demeaning is that? Lives are being lost, people are sick, businesses are being destroyed, and incomes are being crushed. This is bad. Really bad. Probably the worst of most of our lifetimes. How dare we brush it all off with a casual and condescending statement like that?

Here’s how: It may be our only hope for the future.

I have come to believe that our outlook on life, our ability to function, our very mental health-it all comes down to our level of security and our willingness to dance with the…