They used to say that it was impossible to change our lifestyles as we have become far too evolved:Our lives are too sophisticated. No way we may turn towards a simple life. It seems now that there ought to be a rethink about what to do or not to do or just how to be amidst perhaps the greatest challenge facing mankind. Lockdown in almost every country across the world have halted that normal way of life. One is forced to not only be in confined within one’s home but also made to start if at all pondering about what may be the next step. In the process our ‘modern life’ is being questioned or let’s say …should it be?
Governments everywhere unsure which strategy to use in face of that massive challenge about us. People are awakening to a life perhaps how it used to be. No cars, lorries, pollution, or aeroplanes. Humans in lockdown, forced to be or faced the consequences and these may mean one may not be. Far too much a risk to take. Try and break the lockdown and apart from the law in some places stopping you from venturing out, nature will attack. It is a potent a most virile form of almost terrifyingly aspect of an enemy which is deadly:unchecked and you are asking for trouble. It would become a plague, and if this be so, millions will be wiped out across the globe. …hence the silence in almost every corner of the world. You called upon to reflect!
The other free living entities are smiling as they wander about without fear from humanoids who thought they were in control and own every nook around and about. The latter are confined within a small place. One may hear the sounds of the birds even more clearly. Mother Nature is happy! Suddenly humanoids are forced to crawl on its knees and listen to its appeal even if be through a deadly weapon which it has launched to be heard. If there is an imbalanced, that is why things will be. So far, there has never been such a halt across the globe as far as one may recall in history but suddenly what seems to be required is indeed a more united international rather than piecemeal effort at making sense of all of this.
To make sense of it all does not mean that one ought to find a reactive cure at the threat and let’s all get back to what it was before. What it was before is no quick fix. The call is verily to reconsider not only as an individual, a society, a nation or more globally our naïve style of life. On a global scale, the terror which some would try to inject, that law of the jungle where the fittest are deemed to be the norm…. and where the weaker are made to crawl about. There is a need to reconsider whether one needs to go back to that same lifestyles as we were used to, a kind of a mundane and materialistic purge on the both the environment and other living entities where the naïve even tries to spiritualise aspects of materialism whilst creating a lifestyles which continues to plunder on others. …where violence becomes the guiding principle of one’s being and where there is no camaraderie about but plain selfishness where we one is mere reactionaries as in some sense one is doing now being faced with that sudden trauma which has forced global communities to call time on their frantic lifestyles.
The rulers as well as well as the public are hoping that all may just be a temporary affair and that one may get back to that same style of life. To do that may mean that one is no more that a reactionary and so go back to what? To that same, petrifying way of being where there is hate and divisions… whilst continuing in a way which pushes others about and or showing one’s strength in a brute way of being. Or perhaps continue to exploit the elements non-stopped? And or try to be aggressive and violent ?…and where what matters is only the me-ism about and so that saliency of negativity carry on reigning.
We wish to go back and keep the status quo whilst unfortunately all this means that we would be back to where we were.Only the naïve may think that such a state may be possible. A state where one lives a superficial life, a life based on the mundane where one does things simply with little or no reflection. There is a call to move away from that mere reactive approach to a more proactive one where is not confined and caught up in a particular way of being based on the epsilon’s type way of being to coined that Orwellian’s term and abide by what is thrown at us as pleasures and fun’s way to be based on what a few has decided. The call is to awake in the midst of a world crisis of being. It is all a about what else needs to happen to awaken us from that bickering and friction way of being? Shall one carry on living that superficial way of being or is there a need to be reflective rather than reactive? What does it mean be non reactive? Shall one continue to plunder on the lives of others and or learn our livelihoods by doing so.
Can one take that warning from Wuhan as a way to how to be? Or is it just a ‘Chinese” affair with the rest safe one ever it’s over so to speak. Or are we all in it regardless? How did it all happened? And why? What may I do as an individual. May one carry on trying to call upon some highly elevated being for help to secure a life for my family and me to the exclusion of others and or trying to have a list of order carrier so that all will be fine because I pray to some powerful entity or highly elevated being or some God or God to always keep one safe and happy to carry on doing the same things all over again.
Or is there a need to halt and plainly say that what one has been doing needs revising and cautioning is that it requires some clear drastic measures in one’s way of being. Has the time come to do what one needs really to do rather than be made to do as per the other’s demands whether the family, society or the world? Or should one carry on as all this warning is only temporary and one will be back with the cinemas once again opening up another way after the challenges has been dealt with.
To be sure, this again is one for the reader to decide whilst our humble style has merely been to make the other reflect through exposing rather than imposing. Meanwhile please carry on taking care and be safe.