The mind in a sense still wish to stick around and remain at a point where things are or should be how they are. That this should be so is a far cry of romantics and dreamers, the creators but not those who realise that a life is a movement, nay an going continuous one of always being in flux of the type Buddha observed following his enlightenment. In some ways entangled in the current dilemma has forced world leaders in trying to do everything so that the situation will get to normality and in some sense the way it was.In some ways it is wished that this be so, yet if this were happening in made up motion movie, one would have happily sit and just enjoyed the 100 mins or 180 hours of excitement as it unfolds in front of our screen….depends whether Bollywood or Hollywood.The point is that one needs to see the reality of where the world is at this juncture where it is facing an unprecedented challenge affecting the way life has always been but for a threat which clearly is not over by any means.
Somehow the truth of the matter is that more than a year from what hit the world as a phenomenon there is still a continuous outcry that one needs to get back to that point where normality would resurface the way it was and riding of the this temporary hitch in the way that the invisible enemy found a way in our midst. Or that somehow it has to be so surely…..
The sooner humanoids begin to accept that there is no way at getting back to the way it was, the sooner one would have comprehend this problem and move onwards. All a question of seeing what lies ahead in the horizon taking note of what our actual situation is. In many ways life is not simply about removal of the disease and living free it completely. Not do so do would be to plunge further and further in darkness in that there would be no way out. The fact is it is a clear matter of all this being our new way of life.
Problems are part of life. Not to recognise that this is so is the main problem and so there may be attempts to simply delve on self pity as a society or a world at large. The point about life is that challenges will always be there. If seen as a mere problem one is simply stuck at the base and so invite aspects of plunging into sorrow and with it will arrive discordance. Finding ways around may mean also not to grapple with it from the merely traditional. That effort are made around and about to seek a way of the dungeon of being a world order brutally shaken is around, about all of us.
So what do we do or not do as a way to find away out of this maze? Verily that is the challenge. Does one still carry on seeking ways of working all out to find a solution as per a a return to the way it was or should one move ahead. To simply work seeking to reach a certain point free of the invisible enemy may not do. It would be a failure to apprehend on how things are about us now. It calls for a shift in paradigm and appreciating life as it fully.
To appreciate this fully verily means that it is all a question of acceptance of that phenomenon: Something which is here, a part of life and that one may have to death with this and sought ways round it. Just like the thousands of problems one deals with as a nation, society and world at large the invisible enemy has hit us in a way from which there need be a concerted united effort rather than being complacent. Try the latter and you are put backwards, way back with the possibility of being literally overwhelmed.
What need doing is to move away from that kind of naivity which is crippling that all may return at a point in the past and that one may easily revert to it based on our genius ability at solving problems which is no more than patching a bit here, there and about and hope via a reactionary way things will be back to where it was.
The reality is that one has to be frank and with a question of moving onwards and trying to resolve the mess that has been created. Sooner this is apprehended the world will find a solution and try living taking note that it is question of wising up. Problems are, there, and everywhere. All a question of approach. What does one do? What is the most challenging of one’s problems? Upon acknowledging the what is one perhaps would find a way out of the conundrum. The point is to envision the way ahead which is never moving backwards in time but seek to move onwards. This may mean putting things in perspective or looking at real alternatives or perhaps after all one needs to see everything as perhaps after all there is point in finding solutions not via the common materialistic perspective but loo beyond. Perhaps on the way we relate. Perhaps how one should really be as often been pointed out by those transcendentalist who does not denigrate any other but seek a way out of a hitherto failed attempt at living in a way based on the superficial and temporal. Perhaps there is case to ponder on the idea of philosopher kings and away from that roguish trend which always which puts not opposition but often plain enmity even within same society. Or a cut throat attitude that of outdoing of the other as success entails figuratively shooting down of the other.
And even in that clear episode one is living through again there is a lack of cooperation as all hinges on trying to convince the other at accepting whatever way one believes to be the norm . Sure in this process there is always a failure of demagogy instead of attempting to seek out a way out, but for which requiring a clear insight into the dialectics rather than be overwhelmed by the frictions and thereby missing the point altogether as the zen proverb puts it do not mistake the finger for the moon. Or one needs not be overwhelmed by the means and so falls in the trap of the reactionary . It is always important to see The whole as opposed to the part and in so doing one may make sense.
In summary may we rise beyond the mere frictions to actually see and perhaps from then onwards seek a solution which is always a praxis but never a mere passivity. What does this mean? Is this possible?