As we all might know that the pandemic caused by the Covid19 has impacted and hurt many of us. One of the most damaging impact is of course the financial aspect. In Indonesia, the Large Scale Social Distancing (Partial Lockdown / Quarantine) has been enforced by the government since mid March 2020.

Let us take this Covid19 situation as an example and talk about Subjective (Interpretation) vs Objective (Fact). Always see the Fact first and go with the Interpretation. Interpretation is how you feel about the Fact and you can choose or change it. While Fact is unchangeable.
Example :
Fact : Covid19 situation has a great impact on my income (lesser income than before)
Interpretation :  I am feeling depressed because less or even negative cash flow and started to blame the situation, the government, the people around etc etc (victim mode). OR………………. choose another interpretation such as , I am given a chance now to rethink and grow my personal development, or another interpretation that will make you move forward and feeling grateful. You choose your own interpretation.

And that is the point of this post, to emphasize that in every situation you can choose your own  positive point of view for your interpretation and take responsibility. Here are some of the things that I am grateful for right now (my subjective interpretation):

• More time with Family especially the kids.
• Time to learn and practice meditation.
• Time to do stuff with my Electric Guitar (re-stringing, coil adjustment etc).
• Time to play some Games that I missed past these few years.
• Time to finish up all my plastic model kits.
• Time to clean up my house especially tidying up my office room and to fix anything that need to be fix inside the house.
• Time to experiment with intermittent fasting and do more exercise.
• Opportunity to enter the Stock Market in one of its lowest point in the past decade.
• Time to learn or try something new.
• Time to read and finished a lot of books that I wanted to read.
• etc

It is very important to be able to see the positive interpretation in every situation. Even though it is tough to do it sometimes especially if we are the victim (job loss or income loss because of Covid19). But going into negative and depressive state will do more harm than good.

Many Blessings to you and hope that Covid19 situation will be contained soon enough. My question to you : What is your interpretation for this Covid19 situation ?