The Great Realisation

Matthew McDonald (Head of English) shared the following thoughts in an article in a Middle School Bulletin in May. His thoughts are well worth revisiting as we work through Lockdown No 2:

Times of great change and upheaval can be harnessed for good as well as bad, and it is amazing how much of perspective controls the outcome. The question is: how will YOU respond to what is happening? 

If you haven’t seen in yet, you must watch 

‘The Great Realisation':  https://youtu.be/Nw5KQMXDiM4

Our lives have changed over the past two months, and I don’t know about you, but while I will be happy to see my friends face-to-face again and travel further than my suburb, I actually don’t want the world to go back to the way it was before. 

I’ve discovered new ways of doing things that I’d never considered before. I’ve learnt things that I’d never thought I’d be able to learn. I’ve done things that I didn’t think I’d be able to do. I’m doing more things for myself, rather than passing them off to others. 

This is an opportunity to realise what is really important to us, and how we want our world to be. When the restrictions lift, we’re all going to have a choice about what we do next. Do we want to go back to the life we had before, with everything still the same? Or do we want to take the opportunity to do things differently and become something better? 

What will you do differently once distancing ends? 

How will you make you life better once you have control over things once again?

What will be your great realisation?