Whether or not the average person understands write I will write below, here’s what I think every person needs to take away from this coronavirus pandemic:
- The pandemic won’t be over with anytime soon, despite the easing of stay-at-home orders starting to take effect.
- Curing the coronavirus requires a step toward more mutual consideration and responsibility among us all, from the average person to world leaders.
- The coronavirus struck a blow to the egoistic-competitive rat race we were running, and over time we have calmed down our consumerist lifestyles, where it was a norm to exploit others for personal profit purposes.
I think that we can look forward to a positive future, which will be calmer than how we used to live, with more balance among each other and with nature.
Weeks and months of isolation will play their role in transforming us.
Do we really think that the moment all the restrictions are lifted, we’ll be running back to malls, filling our bags with piles of extra clothes and plastic goods, and flying to tourist destinations left, right and center again?
I think not.
One of the major takeaways from this pandemic is that we have cooled off our approaches to each other where we each aimed to self-benefit at the expense of others, and that we see a clear example of nature treating all people equally—which we would be wise to apply to each other.
Nature is working with us, trying to wake us up to the fact that we are all in the same boat, and I expect that we will come out of this pandemic with more awareness of our common status in the wider perspective of nature as a whole.
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