LIFE LESSONS | ILLUMINATION | COOPERATION
Everyone. Stop what you are doing!
Life during COVID-19 and after. Think. There is a solution.
I advise you to read the following in a general sense, not to step into the trap of illusory superiority. I know it is one of the hardest biases to accept, but we are all victims of it, some more than others. Me, never. See what I did there :)
So COVID-19 is here, and that is a new reality we are currently living in. A really different reality in urban areas and less so in the rural side of life.
In the same time, we are heading towards the worst global crisis that the majority of people living now have ever seen, or so they say. For sure it is a turning point for many, many people.
So what do we want? What it is that we really want?
Do we want acceptance, compassion, fairness, gratitude, humility, justice, love, peace, respect, self-discipline, understanding, and good quality of life in the general sense of it?
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius
There is no “perfect constant happiness” that a lot of people are busy looking for, trapped in their hedonic treadmill. And even if there were, we wouldn’t recognize it, because of our well-known ability to adapt to our status quo.
I’m not talking about luxury. I’m talking about common sense life-worth-living that would still come with a lot of life’s challenges.
Life is full of ups and downs. That is what makes it interesting and worth living. The key is to find the balance in ourselves, balance in our thinking and balance in everything else we do.
“Moderation in all things.” — Aristotle
How are we going to get what we want?
Can we make it alone? Hardly. If you think you can, try to go off-grid and soon you’ll realize that you might not make it by yourself, should you need a kidney operation for example or something similar that usually requires another person.
So our best bet is still cooperation. We need other people, probably now more than ever. But the internet and especially social media have painted us an illusion of that cooperation.
Is it the same to “Like” somebody’s input on the web really the same when actually telling it to them in real life whilelooking into their eyes?
No, it’s not.
It doesn’t even come close to the real-life human interaction. Social media has slowly but steadily destroyed the importance of the meaning of human presence.
Just think about it. You have time. Still.
Thank you, Dr Mehmet Yildiz.