Our society is facing the most trying time we have during my lifetime. Coronavirus is wreaking havoc. The United States government is becoming more corrupt and dysfunctional by the moment. The speed of our technological innovation is sitting there as a potential problem as well. These are just the perils that come to mind at the moment, we face many more. Even against these challenges we see the glimmers of hope. There are good people doing good things to fight against these evil forces. There better ways of living out there, and we might find them. It is wonderous how adaptable and imaginative that we can be. I am grateful for the adaptiveness and imagination of the forces of good.
As societies and individuals, we can overcome so many things. We are faced with great adversities right now, but we can come out on the other side. The options of peace, joy, and abundance are available to us. We must however choose these things. Some of these choices are rather easy, some are harder, but we can make them. Within us is this ability and imagination to choose many beautiful things.
My Twitter and Instagram feeds are full of these choices. People are helping their neighbors and checking in on each other. People are getting out and being fit and healthy by taking walks, jogging and bicycling. There are a lot of people out there with the ability to make protective equipment for medical professionals, and they are doing it. These are all beautiful things, and we are doing them amid uncertainty, chaos, and fear.
Chaos, uncertainty, and fear rarely last forever. Life will likely get back to something resembling “normal” at some point. The choices we make then matter a lot. We can choose to keep doing the beautiful things we have started during this virus scare. We can use our adaptiveness to make things better so maybe this won’t happen again. We have a lot of choices ahead of us. I am grateful we at least have a choice and ability to adapt and overcome.
The coronavirus is likely to pass in some time, most pandemics do. We still have many other challenges that will remain. If we can adapt and quarantine and overcome this virus, we have within us the strength to do many things. We can reshape economies to show dignity and respect for all people. Governments can be held accountable and corruption snuffed out. As a people what happens to us is partly what we allow to happen to us. We can choose a beautiful life for ourselves, and a beautiful society for our neighbors. Our resourcefulness and imaginations hold all the answers. We have found the answers before and we can find them again. For these things I am grateful and because of them I have hope.