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How to Celebrate the Small Wins
When you acknowledge the weight you’re carrying, every step feels important
In the past year, many of us have had to alter, expand, or completely re-conceptualize the definition of progress to make room for the daily tasks that, one or two years ago, wouldn’t have appeared remotely noteworthy. You watered all of your plants? Congratulations. You finished reading that book you bought in 2016? Huge.
Planning to run a marathon or even organizing a jam-packed social weekend might have once seemed easily in your grasp, but changing realities require adjustments to our capacities. After a long day of working, Zooming, tending to yourself and your loved ones, it might take all of your energy and focus to just take the trash out before going to sleep and starting the day over again.
On top of mounting personal obligations and goals, there are a plethora of social issues that, on any given day, feel utterly disempowering and hopeless. Despite the easing back of Covid restrictions, we’re still in a global pandemic, confronting escalating anti-Blackness and anti-Asian racism, continuing to witness police brutality in HD, and facing a crisis of human rights at the border.
With so much darkness and suffering in the world, it may seem futile to celebrate something as small as…
