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Everything That Happens, Comes Our Way for A Reason

Was mother earth trying to tell us something important? If so, what message did you hear?

The past two years have felt like Salvador Dali had painted a surreal movie about the world. No one believed such a scene could ever happen. But it did and each and every one of us was a character in the movie. Let’s hope that there are no sequels.

Everything is starting to settle after the past two years. It makes you wonder what Corona was trying to teach the world.

What was Corona Trying to Teach Us?

No sooner had we gotten over Brexit and thought it was a word we never wanted to hear again, COVID-19 took over.

We could not move anywhere. Literally for fear of this virus which touched all areas of the globe and continued to advance rapidly and viciously.

At first, no one took it seriously. Even our own Prime Minister in the UK told the nation to sing happy birthday twice whilst washing our hands and we’d all be fine. Famous last words huh.

Less than a month later, in March 2020, we were told to social distance, not to have physical contact, not to gather in groups, self-isolate, and lockdown. These became the buzzwords of the day.

But what is this corona virus here to teach us?

Everything that happens comes our way for a reason. Even this? I can’t help but ponder this thought. After all, I had plenty enough time with self-isolation to think about what this means?

What is the universe trying to tell us human beings?

What is mother earth saying about all the things that have been going on?

We are basically social beings who have been told to stop doing the things we have been doing.

To be social.

Is this the universe giving us a wake-up call? A reality check of what it could be like if we lost the ability to have social contact.

Maybe We Had Already Begun to Lose Social Contact Before This?

Think about it. Before this happened, we had begun to socially isolate ourselves. How? You might ask.

Through our phones. Our devices. They allowed us to be in a room with other humans but instead we would choose, contact with our phones.

In a room together with other but apart emotionally.

Shunning the human contact. Imagine that.

But when we were told we cannot go and see that person. Before this happened, we would often not even have bothered to look up from our phones, now we are affronted and upset.

Now we desperately want to see them.

We crave this human contact now that it has been taken away from us.

Lesson 1 — It has come to remind us to be human.

To take care of others around us. To start to be social beings again. To enjoy social contact. Put away the phones and start to interact with each other in meaningful and basic ways that we were meant to do (once we are able to).

I worry that the message had not been getting through. We saw people raid the supermarkets, fill their trollies with everything double more than what they needed, and spared not a thought for anyone else. I worry about human selfishness at that level.

Until we can learn human kindness, this virus (or another) may return to remind us to learn that lesson.

Lesson 2 — It has come to show us to slow down.

In this fast-paced world, we are rushing from place to place. Doing. Always moving to the next best thing. We hardly have time to stop. To slow down the pace. Because we fill every minute and there is no time to pause.

Sure, we go on holiday but even then, it is busy. We are doing, seeing, and buying. We are actively trying out new things, which is not bad in itself but we never stop.

We never stop to allow the stillness around us.

The time to just be.

Many people were forced to self-isolate and to be around their own company and those of their family members for the first time. For many families, it became a time of reflection.

An imposed stillness. Maybe even an imposed time to meditate. To be.

I for one enjoyed the stillness. The time when no demands were put upon me. The time to be. It was a time to stop.

Lesson 3 — It is here to teach us that we can get through almost anything.

There have been numerous disasters before. There have been plagues that wiped out millions of people. There have been influenza viruses, Ebola, and Zeka bugs. There have been natural disasters, tsunamis, and earthquakes. All of which feel overwhelming and at the time feel like you can never get through it.

Like there will never be a way out through what is put there to test you.

Corona is here to teach us to have the strength that we will cope with whatever comes our way. It is here to teach that that everything will pass. But we need to keep strong whilst it is here.

We will become stronger from what we go through. No matter how hard it may feel at the time.

Easier said than done I know.

When many have lost their jobs and livelihood overnight.

When they don’t know how they will pay the bills.

Where will they find the money to feed their children.

How will they keep the house warm?

It is a worrying time. That is true.

Let’s stop. Spread some kindness in all this crazy.

Let’s still be humans in the social distancing and self-isolating.

A smile behind the mask to those you see on the street rather than a wary glare wondering if they have the virus because they have coughed.

This came here to remind us of human kindness and to think of those around us.

In Summary, there is a lesson in everything that comes our way, even this.

Lesson 1 — It has come to remind us to be human

Lesson 2 — It has come to show us to slow down

Lesson 3 — It has come to show us that we can get through almost everything that comes our way.

As we come close to the end of this pandemic or so it seems, it is good to reflect on what has been.

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