Murmansk, Russia is as far away from Australia as one can get and still be on the planet. There have been many times this Covid year when I felt my loved ones were as far away as Murmansk. I understand the reasons for lock-downs, isolation and distancing. But these measures attack my ability to deal with my chronic health issues. And that wearies me.
Phone calls and Facetime are good. But they cannot replace, nor should they replace, the actual company of people who mean so much. Covid 19 is a scourge on the peoples of the earth. Yet it often makes me seriously think of what really matters. Family born to us and those 'adopted' by mutual choice, mean more than any material trinkets I'm tempted to collect.
A big lesson to learn but then I could be living somewhere other than Australia, couldn't I?