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CH 3: Rejuvenating old bonds

While you blamed me for making you wear masks, locking you at home, keeping you away from the people and things you love, closures of shops and restaurants, travel bans etc., you have paid little attention to the good I’ve brought to your life. Think about it.

For many of you, when was the last time you spent an entire day with your family and sat down to mealtimes together? Helped your children with schoolwork or read them bedtime stories? Regularly paused to witness the beauty of sunrise and sunset? Have you become better acquainted with your next-door neighbors or come to know things your loved ones have been unable to share up until now? How did it feel to look through your home and find precious mementos from the past hidden away in the back of a closet or an emotional letter your loved one had kept from long ago? Did they spark memories you had so easily forgotten?

The time you’ve ended up spending at home enabled you to discover more about those closest to you. I offered you a once−in−a−lifetime chance to take your personal relationships to a new level, simply because you had the time for them. To sit and talk and really listen to what those closest to you think, feel and desire. In a way, my existence made you do things which you otherwise may not have found the time to do.

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