Are You Shopping For the Snowstorm From Scarcity or Abundance?

Victoria Davitashvili

11d • Share an Insight (Level 2+)

Hi beautiful souls 🤍❄️

The Northeast is bracing for a major snowstorm, and today the supermarkets felt… familiar.

Mobbed aisles. Overfilled carts. That tight, frantic energy that says, "What if there’s not enough?"

It instantly brought me back to the early days of COVID.

Back then, I was operating from pure scarcity.

Fear that we wouldn’t have enough and that we’d be stuck.

Fear that if I didn’t grab it now, someone else would, and then what?

So I hoarded! Toilet paper, canned goods, pasta. Anything I could reach.I wasn’t thinking about community or connection. I was thinking about survival.

But today I realized how much has changed.

This morning, I sat in meditation and actually laughed at the fear-mongering headlines.

The alarms. The dramatics. The constant attempt to keep people anxious and disconnected from their inner knowing.

And then I walked into the supermarket.

I saw the same fear on people’s faces. But I didn’t feel it in my body.

I went in with a simple intention: “I’m buying what we want and need for the week. Nothing more.”

Not snowstorm shopping, just life shopping.

At the dairy case, I reached for half-and-half and noticed there were only two cartons left.

The old version of me would have taken both without a second thought.

This version paused. And smiled.

I took one, and left the other for someone else who also needed it.

Because abundance isn’t proven by how much you take. It’s reflected in how safe you feel leaving some behind.

Where others saw empty shelves, I saw abundance everywhere.Bins overflowing with bananas, oranges, apples.Fresh vegetables. Organic chicken. Organic eggs.

My cart wasn’t overflowing. It was aligned.

I shopped with gratitude instead of fear. Trust instead of urgency. Enough instead of excess.

And then, almost playfully, the Universe winked.

In a store with checkout lines stretching halfway down the aisles, I somehow landed behind one single person. Five minutes later, I was walking out.

A quiet reminder that you don’t have to force what’s meant for you.

You don’t have to compete for abundance.

You don’t have to hoard to be safe.

Here’s the lesson I’m carrying with me today:

⭐ Hoarding is fear trying to feel secure.

⭐ Abundance is trust embodied.

⭐ Scarcity contracts us into “me vs. you.”

⭐ Abundance reminds us we’re connected.