Saghar Setarehのインスタグラム(labnoon) - 10月24日 21時20分

A cup of something bubbly and boozy, first and foremost to say THANK YOU! I have been overwhelmed with gratitude for all the sweet messages and comments about my cookbook news. Your support really means a lot, and I’m grateful to all of you, even if I didn’t get to answer you one by one, I did read every single comment and message.

And more booze, because well, it’s the weekend, things don’t look good anywhere in the world, and we might be facing another lockdown. We’re all very worried, and the boundless uncertainty is creeping up our heads and hearts. I have no words of comfort for those of us in mild or extreme financial discomfort. I don’t know what could possibly make things better for them, for us, but I do know we have no choice other than keeping faith. Putting one step in front of the other, one day at a time, and just keep going — doesn’t matter how slowly — and looking forward. Even if all we can see forward is just a foot ahead our toes.

Please don’t take this as a senseless and toxic positive message. There’s realisticness in it (and it’s a note to self, mostly). When so much is out of our control, or rather, when we’re so harshly *reminded of* how much is out of our control (because to ever think otherwise evidently must have been a mere delusion), we need to feel like we’re achieving something anyway. On days like these, that achievement may look like washing your hair, when you don’t really want to, because your life happens on Zoom now, or sharing a meal with two friends, and forget the world in the chinks of glasses and forks despite the distancing and no hugging. Sometimes that achievement is getting out of bed, even if it’s 2 or 4 hours after you wish you did.

The truth is that we don’t really know how to pivot, because we don’t know what’s coming, and what will be coming after that. But there’s virtue in just *trying*, the virtue being “keeping our sanity”.

Stay safe and healthy, and avoid crowds as much as you can. No point being in denial. We’re too deep in this to risk denial now.

P.S. I really wanted this post to sound thankful and bright. Sorry if it turned out gloomy in the end. There’s just so much light to our times, I guess.

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