My Anarchist Lockdown

I was looking through my Remarkable notes recently and discovered a note I wrote about a year ago, title "My Anarchist Lockdown". It appears to be some "take aways" from living through the "longest Covid lockdown in the world". I seem to have taken on most of these things in the time afterwards, but it's been nice to refresh my memory of these suggestions to live by.

1. Take each day as it comes

2. Have low expectations

3. Make plans and expect them to fall through

4. Find joy where you can find it

5. Appreciate the small things

6. Shift your temporal field

- avoid hourly or daily news

- consider how a problem can be solved over decades

- consider what can be done *now* to trigger long term changes

7. Realise that politics is abotu power, not parliaments

8. Recognise when more information won't change anything

9. Accept your life will have phases and you might have moved on

10. Sometimes it's time to act. Sometimes it's time to contemplate

11. Consider you motivation before acting

12. Forgive and apologise, but try not to forget

13. Ask questions, but only if they are genuine

14. Become a noticer

I think maybe the only one I'd reconsider is "Have low expectations", though I know why I wrote it. "Make plans and expect them to fall through" is a better reflection of what I meant/mean, I think. I still struggle to find the right balance for "news". I aspire to be a "weekly newspaper" reader I think, but such things are rare nowadays.

Anyway, rules to live by if you want some.