COVID, Sick Days, Trust, and Healing at Work
As I type these words, I’m sick. I tested positive for COVID yesterday morning. My body ached all day Wednesday, and my wife was hacking and coughing all that night, with a fever to boot. We’re taking it in shifts of semi-conscious work-from-home productivity, naps, and Disney+.
Why, you may ask, am I taking time to write this blog post when I am sick? Why not just take a sick day, rest up, and take care of myself?
It’s a question I’m asking myself. Noticing how I respond to getting sick can help me get a clearer look at my inner life—my true motivations, convictions, and biases. Sickness allows me, if I’m paying attention, to grapple with my weaknesses and limitations. Sickness tells me things about myself I wouldn’t otherwise know.
So, taking the time to write a post can help me clarify my own thoughts and feelings, and get the most out of this round of the virus as a learning experience.
But hold on a minute. Is that high-minded, reflective pursuit of spiritual growth my real motivation for blogging right now?
Or is it my compulsive desire to work even when I’m not doing well?
Or, having caught up on xkcd and the r/Anglicanism subreddit, am I simply running out of sick day options for entertainment, leaving me no choice but to blog or succumb to mental turpitude?
Clearly, there are a lot of possible motives on the table here.
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