May 4, 2020
Today's episode is called Things We Would Have Never Done Without The Lockdown, and just to put some perspective, we're not really locked down.
1:05 Freedom, Purpose, and Happiness
Let me just say I know we
already called it Lockdown in one of our other episodes. I think it
was the most recent one,
How We're Handling the
Lockdown.
I
think people are doing an amazing job finding their sense of
freedom and purpose and happiness. And that's a little bit what I
wanted to talk about today, what showed up in my world to give me a
little sense of greater lightness than I wouldn't have had and to
hope that everyone can find it.
KISMA
The innovative spirit, the human
spirit.
Nick
The human spirit is
astounding.
KISMA
1:44 New Ways
I think we have to start there.
The human spirit is astounding. You know, Zoe's in New York City. I
don't actually know if she's doing this, but I have other clients
and friends in New York City and they're doing the 7:00 PM clap for
all the frontline workers. People have personally said to me, I
look forward to 7:00 PM and we open our windows and clap for all
the medical workers and frontline workers. Like, that's so New
York. It's amazing.
KISMA
The
birthday parades, those are so cool. The porch concerts. I see that
with a lot of my friends from the orchestra. They're playing on
their porches and they're finding new ways to do
things.
Nick
New ways, above and beyond. That's what the human spirit does.
KISMA
2:45 There is a
Connection
One
of the things that happened for me that brought a lot of lightness
is, I had the class that I graduated with in 1979. We had a reunion
this past summer, which was a hoot. So then I get this invite from
Lenny, who listens to the podcast. He sends an invite for a happy
hour and I'm like, oh, this could be cool.
When do I do happy hours?
By the time it's happy hour there, it's like 3:00 PM here on Friday. And I'm usually still working. But I was like, no, this seems kind of fun.
So we show up on zoom and I'm on zoom all the time. But it’s kind of stunning watching everyone be the same but how many years later and seeing where the guys connect in a certain way and the girls connect in a certain way and then we all connected.
We might have different
political views or different health views or whatever, but at the
end of the day, there is a connection and there's, I think a deep
respect and a deep love and a deep caring and also kind of like,
oh, this is so cool. It is so fascinating to watch how the
conversation goes.
KISMA
13:15
Consistency
What else would you have never
done without the lockdown?
Nick
Oh, that's a good question. I'm
pretty much in my schedule. Because of you we're eating in a lot,
eating good food and obviously we're all eating in right now, but I
don't know what I'd be eating. We're great eaters. We're healthy
eaters, but every day, consistently, thanks to you, I've been
feeding myself well.
KISMA
Yeah, I would've never learned
to be as consistent with cooking. Before it'd be like, “Oh, we
don't have anything. Let's just go out”, and we could still just
order out. But the shopping thing, it really taught me how to plan
a little bit better around cooking. I was already on that before
all this happened, but I didn't know that I would have taken it so
seriously.
Nick
16:44 This is a Really Unique Human Experience
One of the cool things I got to do was my
sister texted me about a week ago and they decided to do a project.
She teaches at Cranbrook. She's a history teacher, and one of the
things that
they're doing is documenting.
They're like, “this is a really unique human experience. We're
going to document it through stories”. So they're teaching all the
kids to do podcast episodes. She knew that I had a podcast and
wanted me to talk to the kids about interviewing people because
they're supposed to interview somebody who would be having a
different experience. And I thought it was really cool, I would
have never got a chance to do that without this.
Nick
20:48
Laughter is the Best Medicine
I
think for me it's just going back to being able to get a little bit
silly, connect with people that are from my past, but now in my
present and they're amazing. Each and every one of them are so much
fun and having these little text threads that make me laugh in the
middle of the day. There's just something about that care that goes
through a group of people that's pretty special.
So
my illuminated thought is, laughter really is the best medicine. So
if you're not laughing out there, find someone to just take you
back to the silliest of times, where you're almost embarrassed and
laugh because it's a really, really good thing.
KISMA