COVID Learnings

What did we learn from COVID?

Ben Shelley
4 min readSep 11, 2023
Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash

We, or more particularly, I learned that whatever can happen, will happen.

This is what I already knew and understood but oftentimes in life, seeing is believing and we can talk about something in infinite detail but until we see it for ourselves, we do not understand.

Live by what we say and not by what we do. This is how we should approach each and every day but oftentimes, we hate to consider the worst-case scenario. We should but many things can hold us back.

We can be held back through fear or uncertainty that makes us doubt ourselves and what we are doing in life.

We consider the worst only when it occurs rather than weaving it into the underlying messaging that dictates our lives. This is the trap and this is very human and I should know as I am a human and I have doubts.

All the time, every day, I have doubts, with the only conclusion being how we move beyond this and push through our days, this is what is essential.

We all learned it first hand and whilst I always hoped for the best and prepared for the worst before, I now do it in more detail.

Not to the office-based disaster recovery but to the point where I run through all available scenarios and plan for every eventuality in…

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Ben Shelley

Someone who has no idea about where their place is in this world, yet enjoys writing about books, education, entertainment and videogames