NECESSARIES OF LIFE – CALM IS A BONUS, NOT AN ESSENTIAL
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - daily column #6728
COVID pandemic, political folly, medical misjudgment, scientific error, bats or wet markets ~ seems more to blame than we have pointing fingers available. It seems we have a combo of COVID-stress, stir-craziness, frustration leaking out, and out, and out some more.
Do we need tension, conflict, and the cranky?
Is it as essential as air and water?
There seems to be a lot of the cranky going around.
I believe most of us get prickly when situations don’t go our way or when someone gets in our way.
Out of my considerable experience with this tension, looking back, I accept that far too many were self-inflicted menaces borne of hasty decisions, hasty remarks, and too much haste for situations or the people involved at the time. My comfy rationalization, “I was young,” but that doesn’t seem defensible for something that happened last week. Or yesterday.
Putting aside my angst – I’ve encountered more cranky people lately than usual, telling their stories of what should be simply problem-resolution grit that developed bizarrely out-of-proportion consequences.
Life as we know it appears to change, often rapidly, but that is a misconception. Our survivalist craving for sunshine, air and water never varies; our needs for connection and interaction with others – like-minded or not, also essential to life.
We come and go, cells degrade and recycle, just like all that air and water that has witnessed every sunrise and every sunset for 4.5 billion years.
Yet every morning, the sun rises.
We breathe, plants breathe, and animals breathe too – we all use the air and water at the heart of all life, so why does calm not prevail?
Reader feedback:
Golf courses are getting as crowded as campgrounds. Let me know when you can squeeze an afternoon out of a day to play, RH, Calgary, AB
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