Letters From Lockdown
As we really “get to know ourselves” and “expand into the spaces” of our (actually) not-Zen-at-all, stressed and worried and messy and crowded isolation spaces, it is greater than you’d imagine to listen to Letters From Lockdown on Snap Judgement.
Glynn Washington (just the best host, right?!) chronicles the lives of those who’ve endured solitary confinement, been kidnapped or forced into refugee camps, spent months at sea. Talk about lockdowns.
There are two types of us: those who see others’ deep suffering as a reason to suffer less in comparison (either born from guilt or gratitude) and those who see others’ suffering as reason to be even more depressed about it all.
I hope for the former, although please bypass the unnecessary guilt (suffering is suffering, as you know). But it’s not about who has suffered more, anyway. It’s about the stories of how those in isolation get clever, get creative, get through it. Whatever there is to get out of it, it’s still better than getting sick.