Slow but steady will get us back on an even keel

A friend of mine, whose wife was being treated for breast cancer at the same time as they were expecting their second child, explained how both of them somehow dealt with the best and worst that life could throw at them.

Both of them worked in radio – one a presenter, the other a producer – so the concept they knew best in life was how to break up a long radio show into a series of smaller ones by virtue of ad breaks every fifteen minutes.

In other words, presenting or producing a two or three-hour programme might seem like an insurmountable task.

But if you think of it as a series of fifteen-minute segments with breathing space and time to gather your thoughts three times in every hour, then the mountain doesn’t seem so steep after all.

Thus, they didn’t look too far down the road as to what might happen in terms of treatment and the baby; they went with the consultants’ advice, took it one bit at a time, and thankfully came out the other end with both mother and baby in the whole of their health.

Collectively, just now, none of us can look too far ahead – partly because it would be a futile exercise in that we don’t know what’s coming, but also because even the bits we can most likely predict are too harrowing to fully contemplate.

And so, we live from day to day – or ad break to ad break, aiming to get to the end of the programme without screwing up live on air.

This Covid-19 pandemic has wiped away all certainty from our futures.

There will be deaths as there have been already, and chances are that it will visit fairly close to home.                                                                           

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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