Dear LPG,

I don’t think I am only talking about myself when I say that because we have all had a lot more time to ourselves recently, there have been many more of those mornings when the day greets us with a negative start. It might just be that the little things that don’t go quite right at the start of the day; those things that usually get forgotten about because we have somewhere to go, or something that can only be done on that day, are now so important to us after months of being restricted to needing to be at home all day.

Even now that there are, hopefully, not too many more of these days to come, I am talking about those mornings when your first thought is about that argument you had on the phone with your best friend last night, when you get up, drop the tea you made and break your favourite cup in the process, when you forget to close the cupboard door and bang your knee on it, when the bill you get in the post is much bigger than you expected or when your first look through your bedroom window reveals the prospect of another dull, lonely, cold day ahead.  The sad thing is that lockdown has offered me so many mornings that have started like this over the past year.

Although I have many friends that I can talk to on the phone, and the television and my tablet have lots of programs to offer, I don’t think that I am the only self-isolator who has found facing each morning hard work.

I found a few solutions online and thought they might help any other readers who are experiencing similar problems.  As usual the internet equates all the solutions that it offers to younger people, but there are some lessons to be learned by us older people too.  I just wish I had thought of sharing them earlier.

I think what the internet taught me is something that I already knew really; that, however small, having a mission planned for each day is so important and what seems like endless days of being denied that sense of purpose has resulted in all those little things that go wrong first thing, having a much bigger effect on the rest of our days. 

I hope that the links I found might help a few other readers to rethink the rest of those days that start badly.

AK, Bellingham

AK shares the online lessons she has learned…

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