From Brasília, the capital of Brazil.
How are you today? Good? That’s wonderful!
How will you be “tomorrow”? You do not know? Nor I! None of us are protected from the Coronavirus.
When you contracted the virus and escaped death, what feeling did it bring you?
Do you know a family member who has been infected with the Coronavirus?
Did you lose someone in your family to the virus or a friend? How does it feel
Do you toast, every time you hear that someone “has come back from the dead”?
Each of us has a very restricted cycle, in relation to all the people in the world. However, it is impossible not to see the number of bankrupt companies, of people who entered bankruptcy for not being able to pay the bills that keep coming in, before sources of income that have dried up. This is already the situation of billions of people on the planet. Can you imagine the waves of sadness that hit the “spirit” of humanity?
Little by little, we are “starting” the engines of life, but don’t forget to always wash your hands, wear a mask, and be loyal to those around you. It is enough that when you feel symptoms, or contract the virus, you follow the protocol and stay in isolation, instead of sowing terror in your “neighborhood”, because in our globalized world, more than ever, the fluttering of a butterfly, in China, can reverberate in the extreme south of Patagonia.
Once again we are being tested in our “humanity”. If you feel good continue carefully, because the vaccine can still take a long time. In the meantime, be adapted to this moment.
When fear begins to lurk, walk away, and from many of the disorders and syndromes that accompany it. May the will to survive and emerge unscathed from the crisis be greater than all the negative forces that surround you. We are in the middle of the current, and the force that we have to release to “return” is proportionally the same that we can use to “swim” to the safe shore.
In December, China let the world know about the Coronavirus, in March the “sirens” sounded warning that the virus was like an earthquake in deep water, and that “tsunamis” were coming against us.
It is the month of August, and the numbers of infected, dead and recovered, are mixed before our eyes, like figures in a kaleidoscope.
Governments and oppositions continue as usual, foolishly disputing who owns the “graveyard tomb”, while falsely trying to calm the world population, saying that we may have vaccines by the end of 2020, and still in a staggered way to different categories of professionals, and finally, for the people in general. However, none of this is certain, because the vaccine can still take a long time.
Life continues to emit signals like beacons in the dark nights, warning of the rocks that threaten our “ships”. The big question is whether we can correctly receive and interpret these warnings.
In any search site you will find the record that on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004, an earthquake of magnitude 9.1 occurred, 30 kilometers deep in the Indian Ocean, generating the “tsunami” that killed more than 230,000 people, in 14 countries in Southeast Asia.
In many ways, that “tsunami” serves by analogy to the year 2020. The Coronavirus looks like an earthquake that shook the tectonic plates that support the fundaments of our modern life. A colossal wave of “horror”, and terror, that continues to sweep across continents and that in just eight months has claimed nearly a million lives.
After all, what signals are life sending? Aren’t we going to stop and take a pause to do a “PSAON”? Isn’t this a good time to PARK, SIT, ANALYZE, and ORIENT yourself, before heading back to NAVIGATE?
American poet Henry Longfellow, once inspired by the blueberry fields of Maine, said that “we can make our lives sublime and, when we leave, leave footprints in the sand of time behind us.”
I do not believe that the signs induce us to become fearful, pessimistic, depressive, or psychic hosts of apocalyptic disorders, syndromes, or conspiracies.
It is time to be even stronger, especially in the soul; time to be less hypocritical, and as a society of rationals, slow down, significantly, our hasty march towards the humanization of things and the thingify of humans (one of the topics of my book, “From Apocalyptic Alarmism to Social and Economic Resurrection – Utopian world, dystopian world”, about to be released).
So, even though it is difficult and strange, pretend to smile, because they are better than pessimism, in bitter times.
Take good care of yourself! Your life and your physical and mental health remain your greatest treasures!
