Pandemic Poetry and Reflections

<p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>What would you do if you had extra time? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>If you couldn't go to work?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>If you were told you had to stay at home? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>If kids couldn't go to school?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>So much of the world experienced some of these things because of the pandemic. We are all a part of history that future people will learn from. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>Have you ever put your dreams on hold? Was it because you became a parent? Or because you needed money and had to work a job (you did or did not love?)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>Have you ever forgotten how to dream? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>What does it even mean to be able to dream?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>What if you could dream again? What if you had time to change it all?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>Why this book? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>I wrote this book for me because I want to remember this journey. I want to read it when I need reminders and inspiration. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>I have learned that often times what we do for ourselves can help someone else if we share our stories. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>During the pandemic I finally reached the point in my life where I needed to try something different in hopes of different results. I wanted to know what it feels like to not give up. I wanted to live a different story. I wanted to be able to tell a new truth and believe in what I could not before. This is my story of continued learning growth- leaning into faith and learning how to trust again. And I would do all of that by embracing all that is good yes even through the bad. I will change my thoughts in hopes to feel how I wish to feel and then c=take action </span></p><p> </p><p>All I knew when this pandemic was becoming was that I had just manifested the life I was dreaming of I wanted to keep that. What did I want my normal to be? How did I want to live? </p><p>If I were to die tomorrow how would I have wanted to live today? I'm going to go live that life. Especially now. </p><p><br></p><p>In this book you will find my story in the form of reflections poetry social media posts diary pages and journal prompts. </p>