MISSILES AND MISSIVES
Friday, May 14, 2021
Soon, perhaps another year, conceivably longer, we’ll comprehend who the biggest pandemic winners and deepest pandemic losers were. Most big names from Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Bay Street and Fleet Street will not change much. But on our main streets, that’s another matter. The rest of us will survive based on our drive to thrive.
Millions will soar, and millions will flounder;
Billions will resort to voting out governments or leaders from office or moving boundaries short distances as old rivalries generate wars, coups, putsches, and oppressions. So quickly, a few missiles, real or political, around the world soon replace COVID off the front page …
In our society of laws, conventions, and actions, we are neither held entirely accountable for our mistakes nor can we entirely avoid accountability.
We fix our errors or try to or recover from them, but there is no simple solution.
So we have two ways out. We work through them, or we die. Those are normal reactions and expectations in a changing landscape. We’ve had a shock to our equilibrium, but as our balance returns, we are getting our collective sea-legs back.
People make mistakes.
And deals put together with the greatest of care do not come with a guarantee they’ll hold together …
Not on purpose, but often by misjudging circumstances – because we don’t know when normal will return or whether everything will be upside down. It seems upside down, and now things are returning to something that isn’t last year and isn’t ‘new normal’ either, because it is not predictable. So, will we have runaway inflation, runaway successes and surprising down/spiral chaos for many others?
Well, I’m told we all die in the end either way.
Better to work through them and die for worthy causes, worthy works, worthy adventures.
So, where does this leave any of us at his time?
The last year has been a chaotic earthquake of unsettling – we don’t know.
Bit by bit, we feel change.
Like losing a little weight – the numbers on the scale don’t move much, but when our snug shoes suddenly feel looser, belt-tightening takes us, one notch at a time, and somebody notices with a, “Hey, you’ve lost weight.” Very little has changed, but it feels bigger than that, and more lasting.