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FIND MANNINGHAM | JANUARY 2022
By Warren Strybosch
With 2022 now upon us, we have been looking forward to leaving 2021 behind and hoping to hear less about Covid and more about businesses beginning to thrive again, people enjoying their holidays, and everyone being allowed to have the freedoms they once had before. Ironically, I am writing this article as I sit in my caravan whilst the rain comes pummeling down, with the caravan fridge not working, the battery getting very low, and many other families having already packed up and headed home; shortening their summer holiday. I then listen to the news and hear all about the spread of Covid across the country with daily stories of people I know getting Covid, local business suddenly closing their doors because one of their staff or customers having Covid, and watching people start to get nervous about these new strains and the rapid spread that is occurring.
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New Year: A New Start was feeling sore at the time. The person was not trying to be mean or nonsympathetic to my plight, but was, in their way, trying to get me to see that I was still very fortunate.
This period will pass, and things will get better. For 2022, I hope your business thrives, your relationships flourish, and you find joy in the day to day. That is my hope for you all.
To top it off, I sit here with a likely torn rotator cuff and swelling down my right leg. This might have something to do with me falling off my mountain bike twice on a mountain bike trail I have down several times before.
I still have a job, my wife and three teenage kids, whom I love, can still put up with me, we have a house over our heads, good friends around us, good staff in the business, and no one in our family is suffering from any major illness or injuries. Overall, I am very fortunate.
Not exactly the 2022 start I was looking for, but you know what, “it could be worse”. That is exactly what someone said to me when I was feeling sorry for myself…I had an excuse…my shoulder
I share my situation with you in the hope that, whilst some of you are experiencing difficulties right now and may not know what the future holds, to not give up.
During 2022, we will try and provide some encouragement and hope through our articles and stories. If you would like to contribute a story to the Find Maroondah this year that you believe will be of interest or encouraging, please send your submissions to editor@ findmaroondah.com.au.
I hear of friends leaving Victoria and moving to Queensland or WA, with the hope that they will have a better lifestyle in those states than our own.
WE ARE MOVING! New Location: 36-40 New St, Ringwood, VIC 3134
From the Find Maroondah team, we wish you all the best for 2022.
Re-openning on 10th of January
