Self-isolation gives you chance to reflect on life, find out who you really are — and who you want to be once this pandemic is over, writes Mark Barnes
Your first fixation is whether or not you're going to get it. Stop worrying about that. You probably are going to get it, but you're most likely to survive. No matter the facts, or whether you're old or health-compromised or young, fit and strong, you will now be facing up to your mortality.
Is life really about waking up at midnight to see the Asian stock exchanges start trading or the US's S&P Futures Index open, transfixed by your screen for hours to anticipate the impact of those moves on your position on the JSE? I don't think so. You can't do anything about it until after breakfast, so why worry now?
You need to start figuring out what you'd do, what you'd change, and what you'd stop doing, if your time was limited. It may be. We have a real crisis facing us, a national disaster, a pandemic. Don't, for goodness sake, waste its force by hiding until it passes. Confront yourself
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