A BATTUTA is a musical expression. It is the indication to return to the original tempo, after a more free passage. A more free passage does not need to be in the same rhythm as the music piece.
Right now, we are in that free passage, waiting for "A BATTUTA". Our lives take a detour at the moment, the rhythm is totally different from anything we have experienced so far.
In my case, I am forced to slow down. Sometimes I turn in circles or I am confused. But sometimes I also have the sensation of being free, even I #stayathome. My rhythm is totally off beat due to Corona and its related consequences (and I am not talking about the beer, which can also take someone out of rhythm)
HOW MY DILEMMA OR OPPORTUNITY STARTED
Level 1 - After the most wonderful ski vacation in February with family and friends in Italy, I had to self-quarantine myself, just for security reasons.
Level 2 - Schools closing down. My 2 kids have to home school. Luckily all goes smooth and I am happy that they are in a school where all is really greatly organised.
Not so great was the fear what might happen to my big son's IB. He goes through some ups and downs along the way. All the seniors were working hard for the past 2 years, namely the preparations for their final exams, graduation, Prom (including pre- and post Prom parties) and of course the long-awaited graduation trip to Ibiza. All was in question and finally blown into the wind. My Mama-bear heart is broken.
Level 3 - my work office closed, and we had to officially work from home, followed by Level 4 - the lock down-not only in my chosen country Belgium.
A lot of businesses and industries are badly effected, so is the Travel Industry I am working in.
Step by step and piece by piece, more of my freedom was taken away - I thought.
But I stayed positive.
Relating back to music, a free passage or a solo is used to bring more "taste" to the piece. Could this mean the crisis can also bring more taste to our life's? I do believe it can.
We always had to be better, BIGGER, richer, more beautiful, reach higher - with no end to that. I asked myself several times where this will lead us? Of course, I never thought about a situation any close to CORVID 19, but the crisis forces us to our knees - we have to sit and accept silence or some have to spin faster. Nearly all of us had been ripped out of our existing lives. To those who have to spin fast and furious, such as nurses and doctors, my thoughts and prayer are with them as well as with those seriously infected. They need the
A BATTUTA rather sooner than later.
For all the others, if temporary unemployed, working short time or as in my case laid off - enjoy the time, see the positive in it! This is the time to make permanent changes, to re-think. Just breath and all will be fine when A BATTUTA comes. Live will go back to it's rhythm. What ever this rhythm will be. You are your own conductor. With this in mind,
Your Pe
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