Heading into the new year feeling weighed down by the past? The key to living a better future lies in what you tell yourself about where you’ve been.
You’ve made it through nearly three years of a global pandemic with almost all of your marbles.
”Because we’re stuck with these conflicting ideas: good, bad,” says Hickie about the way in which many think about the changes they’ve experienced over the last few years, whether that’s to do with work, home life, family or friends. “Humans need an integrative narrative, for [their] story to come together in a way. To both learn. But also, emotionally, to come to terms with what has been an incredibly disruptive and chronically stressful period.
“Actually prioritise them [now],” he says of whatever small joys the pandemic made you newly appreciate, whether that was being able to spend more time with your family, or swapping niceties with your local barista. “[But] our society has not given full respect to [the need for] recovery [from stress]. We’ve slipped into imagining kind of almost like a machine-like world where we just keep going, and it’s unsustainable.”
“In the olden days we used to call that leisure,” says Strazdins. “It’s sort of a dirty word now. The role of leisure as a kind of fundamental right has really slipped away from our public thinking, yet mentally and physically it’s so important.”
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