Just some stuff about me.
Is anyone else just feeling.. totally fine?
From therapist and chakra specialist Anodea Judith
We are witnessing a powerful teaching in the world, an intelligent force that is speaking to us in the only language we can understand – our immediate survival.
just contagious enough, just fatal enough
First, it is teaching us how much we are all connected. From a single point in China, it quickly spread all over the world, and no one is immune. It is showing us we are a global civilization.
Second it is making us SLOW DOWN
stop buying
sober up, and thinkabout what we are doing to this planet.
this virus is cleaning the air, quieting the streets, reducing the garbage, and giving nature a moment to breathe. It is literally cleaning the atmosphere, the corona of the planet, from our abuse.
Corona means crown. It is forcing the people of the world to put their heads together, for scientists to collaborate, for people to cooperate, for leaders of wisdom to step forth and guide us to a new way of living.
Corona is teaching us to care for our bodies, for those who have let their health run down are the most vulnerable.
We are burning the lungs of the planet and now our own lungs are at risk
They say that even those who recover have some permanent damage, just as our forests have permanent damage from our fires.
Those who are experiencing the loss of loved ones are feeling the loss we are causing daily by our consumption, the loss of the animals, the plants, the oceans.
When we heed this important message, the virus will have succeeded in its purpose, and will recede.
So these quotes say the virus is trying to push us towards a goal. But that’s not the only opinion.
As someone who’s NOT rich, who lives - barely - paycheck to paycheck at a job that does not appreciate me, I think this is bullshit.
My job cut my hours so I lose my health insurance during this crisis
This is going to force me to get ANOTHER job because bills still need to be paid, putting myself at MORE risk
I also live with someone who has respiratory issues, so now I’m putting THEM in more danger too.
I have some money in the stock market to try and grow SOMETHING of a nest egg so we can eventually start a family without having to wonder if we can afford rent that month - I’ve lost almost all of it.
It’s the little guys who are scared. It’s the little guys who have to choose between putting their life and their loved ones in danger, or risk losing their source of income. It’s the little guys who have to worry if they’ll be homeless next month. The rich don’t care about us. This virus is not making them kind - it’s making them resentful.
No. I do not feel like everything is fine. I’m glad that you still do. I felt that way this time last week. Now, I’m terrified. This is a global crisis
The other perspective is that…well maybe whoever wrote that poetic essay may just be better off than the majority.
It was just a polite & poetic way of saying “take a fucking good look at yourselves humans - you created this, now learn from it”
Perhaps this is the best way to put it in short.