We planned an overnight trip to the beach. It shouldn’t be a stressful event, we were staying in a hotel we’ve visited many times before and the weather was supposed to be beautiful. However, we are in the middle of a global pandemic and have been on stay at home orders for over 5 months now. Things are loosening up a bit but the pandemic is still raging, could we actually make this trip safely?

I spent 2 weeks prior to our trip wondering if we were doing the right thing. I am not sure what I expected to have happen, but I knew it would be disastrous. I let my anxiety became a self-fulfilling prophesy as there were issues and the trip was not one of our best.

What if, instead of stressing over what could go wrong, I had accepted that there might be challenges and let them go so that we could be open to the adventures of the trip? What if I had gone with a positive attitude looking for fun instead of negatively dreading what we might find? What if I had remembered that we were going to simply get away and whatever that might mean, it would be okay?

We did go and our world didn’t come to an end. I can look back now and see that it wasn’t all bad, there was a quiet walk on the beach and a very pleasant breakfast experience. We did escape the house for a day and brought back some interesting, and even humorous stories. Will we do it again? We have plans for an overnight in a treehouse for next month, what could possibly go wrong with that?