I have recently discovered video calling through the help of a friend who persevered and persevered with me to do so. I know this might seem like a simple task in these crazy times but for me it is so anxiety provoking – the idea that I will talk over someone or the video will freeze or the other person won’t be able to hear me or I’ll stutter. So many anxieties running through my mind, making the task absolutely unachieveable.
But over the last week or so I have called and video called several people including close friends and members of my family.
I feel proud and actually seeing my friends face or my Mumma’s face has made me feel so much better mentally, much less lonely. It’s funny how in these unthinkable times, something as simple as a video call couls really be the difference of long lasting sadness or lonliness or long lasting happiness and feeling connected.
I definitely think this is going to be a tactic which that I am going to have to continue to utilise over the coming months.
When the achieveable seems unachievable. When the emotions are heightened. When I feel trapped. When I feel lost and scared in the world, as if my world, this world, feels deranged and illogical. When I can longer take each moment as what it is, just a moment which will pass.
Video calling will help me. Completely and utterly.
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