CHRISTINA >> Hey guys, it's Christina again. I'm still working at Michigan this is considered my
permanent residence and last week I checked in about everyone moving home
wherever that may be to work remote on their graduate studies and I I feel like
since then in all of this we've received so much advice. We've been
told you know "find a lifelong passion you've been ignoring" and and "be super
productive" or you know "go out and read" and all those things are good and
they're great distractions and great investments of time but then there's
also the sense of if I'm not productive right now, if I'm not cultivating
something that will be rememberable am I just wasting my time and that's not true
either. If you take this time to rejuvenate it can be really powerful
and in what you need to consider what advice you need to give yourself amongst
all the noise and really good intentions I think will very day to day
maybe hour to hour. In this time where I can control so little I can't control
the spread, I can't control the government response, what I can control is my
reaction and I really just want to be
engaged and optimistic and not in the sense that I want to be irresponsible
but just I can't choose to be happy per se. I've struggled with happiness well
before this pandemic started and maybe it's some combination of chemistry in my
brain and you know the right spark moment divine intervention
but I can choose you know to focus my attention to focus on my my thoughts on
what is good, what is righteous, what is pure um and anyway I am encountered with
things like go against that to to see how they can grow see how they can get there.
So you can hear the birds right now. I actually think my camera isn't going to
last until sunrise. The battery is probably gonna give out but yeah I just
wanted to start my week this way to have something fresh and fun. I disconnected
this weekend: I unplugged all my phones and didn't go on the internet to chat and I
just wanted to welcome myself back into a good mindset as I reconnect from this
habit I took. I just am so grateful to be able to share, to be able to process with you.
Reach out, let me know what you want to hear about. I'm gonna cut in a video
of sunrise at a North Carolina Beach because why not share something
beautiful with you that I got to experience many times in my life that
I'm thinking of right now and whatever the Michigan sunset brings
sunrise brings I'm ready to start a new day.