Patience is an adaptive skill

 

Last updated 3/16/2022 at 11:56am



As the pandemic eases, it looks like no end is in sight for the continuing need for us all to remain flexible in our ideas, schedules, plans and expectations, and that’s a good thing.

The human skill at adapting has never been more crucial.

Last week, a “Grant County Leadership” online meeting of municipal and health officials, chambers of commerce, journalists, and others, which has been meeting biweekly for months, decided to switch from pandemic mode to recovery mode with a sigh of relief.

But even at that, it was noted that switching back could be needed in the future if the currently brightening public health outlook takes a bad turn.

That kind of flexibility has now permeated into much of our culture almost unnoticed. It’s evident in the extra patience some people practice in dealing with minor confrontation. Perhaps that’s a result of realizing that in times of high tension and stress, such as the one from which the country is now emerging, we get further in our dealings with each other if we just cut a little more slack for the other person.


Let’s hope that personal level adaptation makes its way into the public sphere soon. It already seems to be. We saw at least two press releases this week boasting of bipartisan political accomplishments.

That feels like the social equivalent of spring breaking out all over.

 

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