Social distancing life lessons

July 2, 2020November 19, 20214 Comments

Every now and then God and the Universe has the power to make change. The power is so forceful that no matter how hard we try there’s a greater power pushing towards the change.

Never in a million years I would imagine to experience a global pandemic in this life time. But here we are.

Yes, the global pandemic has taken a huge impact on social and economic really makes us to reboot our whole lives.

Today, it has been over 100 days social distancing by staying at home, working from home, helping our children continue schooling at home and also in Indonesia, praying at home.

After gone thru what we all had gone thru. I think I came to realise it was really for the better.

Had I known the things I know now, maybe I things would be different. At least that’s always our wish.

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Learn to re-evaluate the meaning of a value

July 2, 2020October 1, 20202 Comments

Value of things. Value of goods. The value of life.

The biggest impact from global pandemic is social economic changes. As a consequence of an emergency, we begin to shift our focus on what is more important. The sense of crisis makes our benchmark to wisely choose our priority.

In this new situation pushes us to rethink various aspects of our daily life. Wether it will encourage individual needs, shared aspirations or community expectations.

The discipline of maintaining social distancing leads us to appreciate the value of time and other important values like being together and family that is currently not able to have. We become aware of the importance of living a good life invites us together to adjust the ecosystem of life.

Everything is reconsidered. Important or not. Necessary or not. Good or not. Give benefits to how many people or will harm more people as we go on with our lives. We don’t think for long term, but learn to be more considerate on what to buy for the now.

The value of an item or a service. And the value of living together means it cannot be exclusive.

Reactions of social distancing certainly becomes vary.

When everything becomes limited. When leaving the house becomes an opportunity to go out but also feels like going into a battlefield. The importance and what is valuable are taken into consideration each time.

Daily lives matter such as instances of appreciating food that is not wasted and seeing the advantages of buying local food ingredients is now a guide that we can admit we are doing lately.

Indonesia’s local produce. Picture taken from google search

When we buy locally. There are so many advantages towards social well-being from mutual dependence to interactions. Hygiene and freshness guaranteed, reduced waste packaging and energy if we compared the result of buying from miles and miles away, and lastly we help accelerate the economic rotation within our region. These are all benefits towards buying local.

Are we returning to the era of first world problem like life necessity ? Or when our luxury feel good items are outrageously insensitive to wish for. Because the next question will be, why do we need it ? We are all focusing on our our safety, health, earn a living and stay educated. Everything else seems secondary nowadays.

We become that person, choosing between 2 significant very different perception of values. Like buying the best and buying better. We are learning how our life feels is much more important than how our life looks.

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It can even possibly become tragically irrelevant or insignificant.

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Tyas is now Partner Consultant and Trainer on Digital and Social Media at Bangwin Consulting, Freelancer, Writer/Blogger, Podcaster. For project enquiries, tyas@bangwinconsulting.com

We are not the same

July 2, 2020October 1, 20201 Comment

What we learn from social distancing.

We are not in the same boat in this pandemic.

From the early days entering global pandemic and before social distancing being govern I often see conversations on social media.

How opinions would be divided to those who insist staying at home to be safe versus those who would openly share their huge loss and impact in their businesses, having the fear of losing their jobs, or struggling to continue working.

The fact that often forgotten, most of Indonesian people really depend on daily income. So social distancing could be very hard for them. On the other hand, we all will take time and process to cope and learn how to change or learn new ways of working. And it is not easy.

However, they try their best to stay positive and act as if they are ok. Keep in mind they might not be ok. They are just trying their best.

To judge a person in their darkest days or on their trying time is so unfair.

We are not in the same situations, our conditions might be very different from each other as well as our circumstances. We are all in different boats.

But if we are in this together we have to think bigger. Rather than scolding them to stay a float, help to put them on bigger ships. That way make all boats are safe while in this journey together at sea.

illustration of a cargo ship

So before judging. Before talking. Before action. Think again. Think harder. Try to understand.

If you say you are in this together then help. Don’t just make it harder than its already is.

People need hope and solution. If you cannot give any of that, the least that you can do is to be kind.

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Tyas is now Partner Consultant and Trainer on Digital and Social Media at Bangwin Consulting, Freelancer, Writer/Blogger, Podcaster. For project enquiries, tyas@bangwinconsulting.com

Tyas Handayani

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