{"id":9813,"date":"2024-07-02T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2024-07-02T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:12:39","slug":"my-99-year-old-self-perspective-in-the-time-of-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/my-99-year-old-self-perspective-in-the-time-of-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"My 99 year old self &#8211; Perspective in the time of quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Perspective in the time of quarantine. As the reality of \u201csheltering in&nbsp; place\u201dsets in, with no near end in sight, I find myself needing to get up above the pandemic. Trying to get a 10,000 foot perspective. My Grandma Betty, who turned 99 this year had been though many global crises- and thus she saw this pandemic through a different pair of lenses. Which prompts me to ask&nbsp; \u201cwhat would my 99 year old self tell me today?\u201d I think she would say this time with my family is a gift. I think she would say this time of quiet isolation with those I love is a precious gift; a rare gem.She would tell me to stay present, love well, laugh often. And she would tell me this too shall pass far more quickly than I can imagine. She would tell me to treat this time as invaluable \u2013 that it\u2019s worth more than I can understand right now. to be as deeply present as possible and look on this time as one that will bind me deeply to those I love. She would tell me that I might never have as unique an opportunity as this one happen again in my lifetime. I think my grandma Betty would say \u201cTasha dear, perhaps you should talk to your 99 year old self&nbsp; more often.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/svg\/1f98b.svg\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd8b\" style=\"width:58px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>#butterflybtc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspective in the time of quarantine. As the reality of \u201csheltering in&nbsp; place\u201dsets in, with no near end in sight, I find myself needing to get up above the pandemic. Trying to get a 10,000 foot perspective. My Grandma Betty, who turned 99 this year had been though many global crises- and thus she saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}