In this age, it sometimes seems everything is coming apart. The signs are everywhere. Lately as the whole planet has experienced a quarantine lock down, everyone tries to stay apart so we don’t exacerbate the epidemic. It is an effort and a mindful discipline to practice this new distancing from others. The effort comes with lessons, and new ways of being polite. Nod to the ones who make space for you to pass, but maybe you don’t say thank you out loud; it might spread germs. Perfecting the eye smile while masked.
We are all in this together, and we are also each having our own unique experience, depending on where we were when the music stopped. There is time, a time out from business as usual, to step back and reassess how things were, and what should change. It is truly a moment when everything is up for revision and re-envisioning.
Glaring inequalities are coming up and being exposed to the light of everyone’s attention, personified by triggering events witnessed by all in this new age of social media and global information connectedness. In our time apart we can see how differently people are suffering the disruption we are all conducting together and separately.
It is a moment of crisis, and opportunity, as the saying goes. All systems are under scrutiny in the harsh light of this moment. As we slowly begin to come back together, we know we don’t even want it to be the same again.
"Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are." Maxwell Maltz
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