Corona - Restrictions & Liberation

As with most things in life people can look at this Pandemic positively or negatively. It can be an opportunity or a limitation. It all depends on your mindset & your circumstances.

I'm not ignoring the traumatic & heart rending suffering that Covid 19 has caused. People are suffering serious illness, hugely difficult working conditions & feelings of hopelessness & fear.

I am trying to see a little light in the darkness. The majority of people are  experiencing a way of life that few anticipated. We have to adapt & cope with that, helping eachother where we can. But we have the chance, given the limitations we are experiencing, to grasp things we had lost -

• Time - to think, to be,to do things we never had time for before.
• Opportunity - to get rid of things we thought were important, but we now realise aren't. To simplify our lives back to the things which really matter.
• Possibilities - we didn't have time to recognise or act on previously.
• People - we had lost touch with.
• Ourselves - lost in the daily routine of home, family, work, social life...
• Perspective - of our world, our place in it & what we are doing to it.

I could go on, but I'm sure you see the pattern of my thinking. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-assess so much. To change things that really need to be changed. To work collaboratively with others wherever they are. To make better decisions for people & the planet. To share resources & information. To make peoples lives fairer & more equitable.

This is a real chance, which if we ignore it, will send us continuing along the old path leading to loss. Loss of human dignity, species loss, habitat loss, resources loss & ultimately possibly the loss of life as we knew it.

We can triumph over a Pandemic. But more than that we can triumph over ourselves & our destructive behaviours. It might be the existential tipping point of actual survival.