The idea of facing up to the crude reality is what sages have propounded from time immemorial. A case of being there and not running away here, there and everywhere or being lost in often non essential activities as invented by humans and given so mu h importance that somehow these made up aspects have taken over where become the way of being.
The new opium of the people in the form of sports had taken over the universe. And these seen to be the be and end of it all as if without it life may not go on. All our relationship in life are so geared towards. What will one do without it? Like the ritual in the middle ages or those addicted to non legal drugs some or rather most have been used to, or minus the UK Premier league or cricket or rugby…ti discover a crash. Even these are pushed aside suddenly to rediscover life and relating to it in a more authentic way rather than loosing oneself dare one add in some meaningless projects, where there is no time for reflection. Or you are forced to awake and be…. as humans are either in forced or voluntary confinement!
What is staring one is the fact that nature is forcing one to reconsider, and live life a la back to the basics. Only rare few are able to do that without recourse to and being indulged in frailties. The wake up call has been sounded. Siddharta Gotama encountered the 4 signs which was sufficient to make him move onwards and choosing a life of exploring and scrutinising life as it is through his research and other medication. Some would see how degraded life is that often they take again a more reflective route away from the maddening crowd into a life, taking a step backwards to ponder. King Pariksit accepted that time was called by his indulgence in those mundane forms and he asked for audience on the way forward…again taking a backward step to reconsider how to move onwards.
In the same manner, society as a whole is being asked to step aside and look inwards in the depth of what needs doing in the mode of how to be. The outer is the escape route and life has been fashioned in a way to be entangled in forms which puts one on from the moment of awakening onto the exterior. It is simply that one may not carry on. Enough is enough. The signs of the times are resounded. Awake and perceive rather than moving away from what needs to have been apprehended in the first instance.
Cooperate and you survive. Ignore the warnings and one is doomed.That is the message which is about for humanity to consider. No longer those superficialities. No longer those mundane and so-the bourgeois style of being where some are looked down upon and others revel at plundering the weaker ones. Indeed, a case of facing up to life with the stark reality being as clear. One may not be full stop. Forgot those running away, forget those mundane way. Forget the hate, bickering and the divisions. Either in togetherness or united there is hope or despair will take over. The crude reality is there.
The world plague is in the making. Life and existence is threatened to the core. Complacency leads nowhere.The call seems to be either you pause and and call time on that form of mundane mode which brutalises the other or existence may not be. The way one lives may have be questioned in more ways than one. It would be about separation of the weeds from the essentials or carrying on of the superficial which has in many ways brought the world to its knees. Verily, it would be question of pondering what really needs doing and not doing as well as how to be in the world arena.
Will there be a new world order not based on the survival of the fittest where the weak and the less able are pushed aside? May one even contemplate a return to that same style of life where things will simply go ahead. To be believe so is to err as humanoids as a specifies would have taken note of what hit it at the core of its being. There is no need to self destroy. Corona is teaching that one is no longer isolated. A case of either one moves onto more international cooperation rather than piecemeal attempt at trying to make sense of it all.The cry is to give one our life back and it is precisely that which is being questioned at this moment. That way which was posing a danger to the environment and other species which as rulers humanoids failed to act upon. There is a forced pause through nature’s attack which brought the halt and with it a more pollution free included.
As a specie is there a need to reconsider given that we are forced de facto to halt our lifestyle albeit temporarily. Only the naïve may think that the same style of living will be there once it is all over. Once, clearance is given with the slowdown or even disappearance of Corona, it is simply hard to see how one may get back to ‘normality’ as one may never trust the other ever again in proximity. Nor shall we even attempt to greet one another via the usual route. It will be case of trying to find new ways through this conundrum. Here as one never trusted any other anyhow, as there were always some movement onto impersonal approach at life but now it may be a more concerted way at future relationships. The other will be seen as a truly carrier of a deadly weapon at all times which would made a significant number to be on guard at all times.
Or may one find ways around such direct challenges in some effort at getting back to normal? Will there be a return to be among a crowd ever if at all or needs the world connives other ways of entertaining which moves away from what one has been used us. Will this be an end to all forms of gathering…. Whether it is clubbing, sporting , congregating for prayers and or similar social meeting? Time will tell but the appearance of social distancing will seems to be a new pattern that will stay in our midst.
Perhaps it may be a rise of further technology to take note of the imminent dangers whereby one may have to find yet other innovative ways of keeping one ‘happy’ in the new world order which is being slowly revealed…..