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Idiom: Be at the end of your rope
All around the world, people are at the end of their ropes.
Lockdowns, remote work, and not being as free as we once were have taken their toll on us.
When you are at the end of your rope, you are so stressed with a situation that you feel you can no longer go on.
People feel they can no longer deal with the COVID problem and the resulting situation in which they find themselves.
However, we can do this. It is not the end of the world.
No matter how bad you feel your situation is, there is always someone in a worse situation.
I know that offers you little consolation as you struggle through.
We are living through extraordinary times.
Think about the Second World War and imagine what those people went through.
It doesn’t matter if they were Japanese, Europeans, Canadians or Chinese.
I’m sure there were times when each person alive then felt they were at the end of their rope.
They thought it was all too much to deal with and that they could go no further.
They were exasperated, frustrated and scared.
I take inspiration from the fact that they did continue.
Even though they were at the end of their rope, somehow, they made or found more rope.
We are human, and that’s what we do.
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World wars and pandemics do not happen every day, but they change the world when they do.
There is no going back to what is now called the ‘before times’ – the time before the pandemic.
Even though you may feel you are at the end of your rope and can’t take it anymore, you are not.
You are not even close to your limits.
If you feel like you are, think about those who lived through WWII and take inspiration from them.
They survived that.
Surely, we can survive this.
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