After almost 3 and 1/2 months, I think I have finally been bitten by the virtual event bug. And I am probably the last holdout!
For months, I’ve watched all of these amazing virtual events being advertised, thought that it would be cool to register and participate in the event, but then another event would show up on Facebook, and I’d want to do that one too, and then I couldn’t decide which one to do. So I wouldn’t do either of them. When faced with a choice during the middle of a pandemic, I chose nothing. And I did that repeatedly.
And it’s not like I didn’t want to join these events. An online yoga class with a famous instructor? Yes, please! A virtual class with an author I love? Of course! A virtual tour of a museum in Europe that I will probably never physically get to in my lifetime?? OMG – yes! But I just got too overwhelmed with the sheer volume of events being offered, the conflicting times and the fact that I was really supposed to be working normal business hours.
So I chose nothing again and again. I even tried to make deals with myself — I would do one virtual event a week. I’d keep track of the ones I wanted to do, and even if I didn’t do it “live”, I would go back and watch the recording when I had a spare moment. I started writing lists of events I wanted to go back and watch. These lists started becoming pages long…
Then something clicked this week. I am not sure how, but I have now participated in four virtual events this week — two were live and two were recorded. But I did them and it’s only Tuesday!
And I also bought the books from two of the live author events. Books I so did not need, because I already have a mountain of unread books in my house. And some of those I eventually have to return to the library…but I’m now doing virtual events!! This is progress!
Notes from a Self Quarantine 