Fear Less

My wife and I ride our bicycles up and down Beach Road almost every day. We have been doing that ever since the Coronavirus hit. We can’t really go places like we used to and we can’t visit with family and friends like we love to do, so instead we go for bike rides and talk a lot. And we have these really great talks, about life, about love, about our hopes and dreams and fears. I joke that we try to solve the world’s problems during our bike rides. And I do so wish we could!

Unfortunately, we can’t. But the one thing we can do, is we can stop worrying about things and stop being afraid… but yet still be smart! At first, we were really fearful of getting the virus and/or spreading it and that’s normal. We were scared for our children, our parents, our friends, ourselves. But over time we’ve come to realize that worry is a wasted emotion and  fear is simply weakness. So we’ve switched from being afraid to simply understanding what we can and can’t do and make it a point to be careful, wear a mask, and social distance at all times… while still making the most of life.

Yesterday, as we rode our bikes, we talked about how living through this pandemic has changed our lives. Not all of it has been for the worse. It has made us smarter and stronger. And we’ve learned some really important life lessons. Mainly that we don’t have to live in fear, we simply need to be smart about how we live, while protecting other lives at the same time.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood and now more than ever is the time to understand more, so that we fear less.

~ Marie Curie, Physicist, 1920