TOO SOON, TOO LATE, TOO MUCH
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Sure, we won’t green the planet as fast as everyone thinks (not enough rare-earth minerals and computer chips) with electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind farms everywhere.
The world is in an ‘on pause’ mode right now, yet poised to ‘resume’ …
That’s weird, right?
We still don’t have ICU relief, a blunted curve or enough vaccines, but people are ditching masks and resuming crowd activities (did you see that PGA championship mostly-maskless crowd?) … as if a 4th wave has been statistically prevented. 3.466 million are dead. 1.67 billion vaccine doses have been administered so far. At two doses per person for 8 billion of us, we’ve got a long way to go …
The wind still blows, streams still run downhill to reach an ocean, cells divide, children grow, turmoil is everywhere in one form or another, and we all grow old.
We can pause things – decide to delay, dam the stream, de-elect obsolete leaders, recycle our purchases, and re-watch Netflix favourites, but the moment we un-pause our lives, hit the resume button on everything, take us back to our previous cruise-control settings.
But think back, pre-pandemic, what about your life did you want to change?
If not yet, why not now?
Otherwise, everything will be ‘back on the path we’re on’ before the pandemic.
Solitary thoughts get fleshed out better when we map them out in calmness, in the quiet – rainy day quiet, darkness quiet, alone and quiet.
We all know that nothing stops.
P.S.: holiday weekend just past (Victoria Day in Canada, Memorial Day in the U.S.) was a dreary one here in Calgary – cold, rainy, glumness-inspiring. Those camping, glamping and hiking didn’t fare any better – they got soggy where they were. I spent quiet time at home-office and office-office doing some of those ‘quiet think time’ projects that seem to get put-off, and then put-off again. I was wondering too, why don’t we remember Queen Victoria’s birthday a week later when it’s warmer?