Regenerative Future
Is the Coronavirus Fuelling the Transition?
Or will we go on living as we did before?
This will be a short article. I don’t want to write about the coronavirus. Too much is being said already. Too much drama, too much fear.
In the Netherlands, where I live, the schools and restaurants have closed. My work appointments have all been canceled. I feel the tension in the supermarket. People scurrying along. Staying far apart. Not looking into each other’s eyes.
But I have hope. I read about students babysitting the children of hospital employees. There are civilian schemes set up to lessen the loneliness of elderly people. A boy is walking a dog of an elderly woman who does not dare to leave her home.
Creativity reigns supreme. I saw a fitness instructor who took his music installation to the roof. He put notes through the neighbors’ letterboxes and gave a class to all the people on their balconies. Great thinking! Keep up the spirit!
People are taking physical distance from each other. Realizing that, in fact, they rather want to be close.
Some people are waking up to the thought that there might be more important things in life than work, money and living hastily without any attention for the world around us. It’s like a horror movie with a happy end.
“It’s like a horror movie with a happy end.”
It starts with fear, lots of fear. Fear of losing our lives. Fear of losing our comfortable ways of living. A virus is changing our lives dramatically. In a movie, there’s always conflict and a lesson. Subtle sometimes, or in your face. This time we cannot get around it. The message is clear.
Can we be curious? Find out what this coronavirus lesson means for us personally?
One thing that’s available to us now is nature. Go find a tree and listen. Hear the birds’ song. They are the wise ones trying to tell us something…
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed.
And in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.” — Kitty O’Meara
Thank you, Mike, for adding your wise energy to my words on healing the people and the planet.
If you want to connect, you can find me on LinkedIn or Facebook. Or somewhere in the woods building huts with a few superheroes from the ReGeneration…
