Writing about this pandemic is not easy.
Facts are hidden in a sea of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
News follows us around like a toddler in need of a diaper change.
Decisions test our morals far more than we want.
Emotions are up and down like a yo-yo.
Living with this is not fun.
Thinking about this is hard.
Writing about this is very hard.
Here is my take:
- First, there is no normal.
- COVID 19 is a virus, not a war.
- Wars are stupid.
- We live in an environment where the virus lives
- No one knows what the future holds.
- No one knows the right answer.
- There are a lot of wrong answers
- The future does not have to be grim.
- We decide how we behave
- Leadership only works if people follow.
- We can’t go back to what it was like.
- The ‘good old days’ were not so good.
- If we can’t deal with this, how can we ever handle global warming?.
- If we are not dead, we are alive.
- We are alive.
- We can deal with life.
- The top 50 pleasures don’t list toilet paper.
- Values are stronger once tested.
- Life tomorrow will be different than today. It always is.
- We decide how we treat each other.
- Your head in the sand doesn’t work.
- Nor does thinking negatively.
- We can sacrifice for the others.
- We can spread kindness.
- We can infect others with love.
- We can decide what the future looks like.
- We can make a new world.
- We get to do this.
- We CAN do This