While there are so many people coming together separately to help one another during this crisis, there are others who are making things worse. I may joke about Karen comments but they are real and they are the bane of my existence. You do not have the right to tell another person how to feel, behave, or post during a worldwide pandemic. (Unless they aren’t staying six feet away.) This is uncharted territory and everyone deals with stress and anxiety differently. Many of us are just trying to get through one day at a time. For some that means trying to stick with daily routines that give themselves some sense of normalcy while others like myself try to diffuse things with humor to keep from crying. Someone told @hilaryrhoda “can you and Sean please stop your weird thing that life is normal.” Hilary responded that “life is NOT normal and right now…but being positive in life is all I know how to do and that’s how I’m dealing with this.” Another women wrote to me last week and said, “Don’t take this the wrong way but looking forward to your stories/posts returning to uplifting, inspiring, content…enough of the quarantine in NYC.” I mean, how out of touch, tone deaf, and narcissistic do you have to be to send this message. And today, I had a woman tell me that I shouldn’t color my hair at home during quarantine. I can’t think of anything that would make me feel worse than letting myself go right now. The only thing I can control in an out of control world is how my hair and nails look even if no one sees them while I self isolate at home. To quote @brenebrown, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” If you don’t like what someone is posting, unfollow or mute them but don’t @ me or them Karen. #quarantine #socialdistancing #youdoyou #dontatme #centralpark (at Central Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-XZUUCnSPE/?igshid=1gbcza1lk77x0
