De-escalation: Now It Is Your Responsibility To Take Care Of Yourself
So, is it finally all over? End of quarantine or de-escalation in phases, they invite us to the street, they open restaurants… Is it safe to go out?
It is inevitable that after so many days of confinement We are finding it difficult to normalize the return to reality Definitely nothing will be the same again, that’s for sure, but there is something much more intrinsic that paralyzes us in the act, and it is the fact that now we have to be responsible for our lives, our actions and every step we take.
And perhaps for a moment we think, especially adults, that we were already responsible, because no one was behind us telling us what to do or how to do it; However, adaptation is difficult. Because being responsible for paying the telephone service bill is not the same as doing so by taking care of where you put your hands, who you talk to, etc.
Things like the uncertainty of not knowing in what unknown place the bill that you now have in your hands was and having to remember every now and then not to put it to your face after having handled it, They constitute new information that we now have to mesh in our brain overnight because it turns out that “we have the order to return to normal.”
We have not had time to educate our minds in these new habits, and the truth is that all this shows that we do not know how to take care of ourselves.
All of this has ancient biological reasons and it is important to know them in order to know our weaknesses and where they come from; Only in this way can we begin to change the patterns.
The need for self-care
Human beings need care even when we are a little advanced in age. We have a very long childhood, and Both men and women must be under someone’s care for many years
When we are adults, two things often happen:
This generates the reproduction of a pattern in which the man does not learn to take care of himself and the woman, due to lack of time due to being busy taking care of others, forgets to take care of herself.
No wonder so many homes today as a result of this pandemic are on the brink of collapse. Women full of anxiety and fear for the future, with an overload of responsibilities at home, and the man not knowing how to contribute because he never knew how to make a decision without help from his mother in the first place, and then from his wife. .
With this I do not mean that different homes do not exist; I am referring to the product of a system whose patriarchal formula has become evident that it does not work, and all thanks to COVID-19.
A time in which responsibility prevails
The moment of dawn that we were waiting for has arrived, now we can go out into the street dressed in the outfit of the moment: conscience
We know that we must take care of ourselves to be able to take care of those who are waiting for us at home, and thus keep them safe. The time has come for cliché phrases like “only by loving yourself can you love others” stop being clichés and become habits 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Only by loving yourself will you value your health and you will not run to get into a party or go out without a mask on the street, that is something you should no longer do, if you want yourself to be healthy you will take care of yourself and consequently your loved ones will also be healthy.
Let us remember for a moment that it was our childhood carelessness that got us into this situation in the first place. We did not take the warnings of self-care and distancing seriously until we began to see that the number of infected and deceased people exceeded one hundred.
Has it ever been so easy to stop the spread of a virus? The only thing we should have done was one thing, take care of ourselves, and we couldn’t handle a responsibility like that.
Concluding
You and I, like everyone who has read this article, know that those who carry the greatest responsibility are not going to take care of us, otherwise they would not send us out on the streets to normalize a flu knowing that we will most likely fail. for the second time (not to be pessimistic, just realistic).
So, if it no longer depends on them, That it depends on you is your only alternative to maintain your well-being you are your only hope of staying safe and protecting your loved ones.
Wear a mask, always carry gel with you, avoid crowds, do not put your hands on your face under any circumstances, and please comply with the new rules of coexistence, although I would call them survival.
And if in any way you are having a hard time adapting to these new habits or you feel that it has affected your behavior, thoughts or emotions, you or any of your loved ones, I am going to suggest that you contact me or visit my page to find more articles on the topic. I hope I’ve helped.
