Why Not Not

After reading about how good our staying inside is making the outside a healthier place, I have something to add to the Why Not list. Why not make one day a week into a stay home day,keeping away from work and school to ensure that we recognize a place to live can be a home, not just a place for comings and goings. Apparently, those now at home are learning how to get along in close quarters. Parents are learning that teaching is not an easy job and that home chores can be shared and not just left up to the one go-to person in it. Kids are learning to do for themselves, something they knew always, but found it much easier to let a parent do it for them. Couples are finding out that they have things in common they didn't take the time to discover previously. None of it is easy but when you must do something, it becomes, for positive people, a learning opportunity and not a drag. If we made Wednesday, for example, a stay home day, perhaps that niggling matter that you didn't have time for might become an actual possibility. When you have two days off work and then a midweek break and then two more days of work, perhaps longer to make up for the Wednesday, you would have a time to look forward to. Your Wednesday would be a day of peace and planning, of comfort and ease, of sleeping in or doing something creative, might be talking to your home mates and generally going about in a more relaxed mood. When you are not stressed out knowing that there is always the Wednesday break to get your head together again, you may find that you are a better employee and better lover, mate, friend and companion and shopper. There would be a time to meditate or read or game or loll or sleep or zoom or facetime or write. Wednesday would be a time to think. Thinking is something that is done majorly by older, retired folk who have nothing but time to think on their own schedule, to remember why they were born and reflect on what they did with their lives. Sadly workers don't do much of it. Work gets in the way of being able to luxuriate in thought. It crowds out your personal brain time  and puts in its own demands on your body. When you must stay within your walls or yard or building, you can't or shouldn't allow any "bad stuff" to enter. You look around to see what's outside your window, learn how the people inside your life actually look and feel, how what goes in in those four walls makes your life, not work but the true reality. Your four walls are you. The Wednesdays could be planned.  You wouldn't  have to date, it would be true  time.  Dating is an artificial idea. Being at home, in home is natural and a grand opportunity. The Stay Home Day could be done. The hard part is finding a way to do it. But we are resourceful human beings and have proven the benefits, even when a tiny virus has forced us to endure something we never dreamed of. Endurance is what we humans do well and hopefully, we have taken its lesson and tried to make us think in terms of Why Not.