The New Coronavirus is Here With a Clear Message For Everyone

Can you decipher it?

The world is currently in a battle with a highly contagious virus. We are fighting to stay alive — and not to be decimated by a deadly virus that has suddenly brought everything to a screeching halt. Our very busy commercial airplanes can’t go anywhere at the moment. Sports facilities and offices are locked down. Everyone is hiding from a highly contagious killer virus.

And even while at home, many of us live in constant fear. Some people are afraid that this might never be over. While some are afraid that they might starve and die of hunger owing to impending food scarcity.

Many are also afraid that they may not have a job to return to after this battle with a beastly virus is over.

No one saw this one coming. This actually was supposed to be a very wonderful year. And I never for once imagined that the world was about to be severely dealt with by a killer virus. It took many by surprise. And as a result, there have been sicknesses, unimaginable pains — and many fatalities.

Before the new Coronavirus surfaced, we were almost always on the move. Everyone wants to be at the top. And it never seem like anyone wants to slow down for the other.

We want power. We want wealth. We want to dominate. We want to occupy everywhere. And we want to achieve all these at the detriment of our health, our climate — and our peaceful coexistence.

We believe that nothing can neither stop us nor slow us down. We act like we are invincible. We package ourselves like folks that are not vulnerable. We mask our pains — and we flash our gains. We want to be seen as perfect people.

And then all of a sudden the new Coronavirus surfaced— and everything changed. The virus gave everyone — and every activity the red light. Asking us to stop with whatever we think we are doing — and take care of each other first. And that’s exactly what we have been doing since this plague poped up.

The way I see it, this ugly episode of our time is actually telling us that we have no iota of control over what might happen next. It’s reminding us that the more we live recklessly, the more we create room for an unimaginable challenge to befall us unannounced.

Thus we have no choice, but to start living responsibly because we can’t continue to live our lives the same we’ve been living — and expect not to encounter challenges that are similar to the new Coronavirus or something even worse.

We prepare for wars that may never happen. We pile up arms that we might never make use of. And we make little or no preparations for a difficult challenge like the new Coronavirus.

Clearly, we have achieved a lot, but the new Coronavirus has shown us that we still need to make a lot of progress in the directions that could sustain us — and everything we have achieved.

The COVID-19 is reminding us of how vulnerable — and how fallible we all are. Because irrespective of how far we’ve gone in technology development, amassing of wealth — and knowledge. We failed to build systems and resources that’ll help us to adequately manage unanticipated challenges like this present one.

The new Coronavirus is telling us to always look out for each other — and not to only do so when we encounter a difficult challenge.

Therefore I believe it’d be a good thing if we can slow down a bit and focus more on being kind to one other — and start living a life that won’t imperil our climate and our peaceful coexistence.

Spain is shutting down hotels for commercial purposes — and converting it to temporary hospitals and accommodations for health workers. This scourge has really bared our inadequacies and shortcomings — and points us to the direction that we need to focus more on as humans.

And this means that we need to build more health care centers and facilities. And better homes for the elderly ones in our societies.

I strongly believe that the new Coronavirus will eventually be contained. But it’s going to leave us with huge scars. Scars to always remind us of the battle we fought — and what we had to give up in order to achieve victory.

Your own scar will remind you that there was a time when you were quarantined. Or when you had to live in isolation. When you constantly live in fear of contracting a deadly virus — fear of losing everything — and fear of death.

It’ll remind us of our monumental losses. And hopefully, the scar will remind every survivor of the lessons they learned from the experience.

What changes are you going to make in your life after everything returns to normal? Would you still live your life the same way you have been living all these years? Or are you going to make amends to show that you now have a different outlook on life.

That through your experience from dealing with the new Coronavirus have learned that life isn’t all about you, your ambitions — and your family. That life is actually about every one of us.

You can clearly see how COVID-19 pushed everyone to one side of the table where the single focus is on how to come out of this extremely difficult health challenge alive — and start living again. And not breadth our last breaths.

Therefore regardless of how you may choose to live after all these are over. The truth is that whatever we collectively deposit on earth is what we will collectively reap. There are no two ways about it. Because at the end of the day, life is about every one of us. We’re all closely interconnected with each other.

Therefore we matter to each other. And that’s what the scar from this scourge will always remind us.

And that’s the message from the new Coronavirus.