We all had ideas and ideals for this year. The universe had it’s own.

I haven’t had much to say publicly, like you I had plans for this year and projects I wanted to launch and the Universe; well, it had other things in mind.

C-19 has thrown most if not everyone for a loop. A non-discriminating, non- judgmental, non-non-non nonsensical virus or thing that’s impacting the entire world. From the old to the young, millions have literally become sick and even more have died. Those who are deemed lucky to not have symptoms still are plagued with the restrictions and major changes to their lives. For that matter, we all are, infected with C-19.

I had a conversation with a friend recently about this. 2020 literally has completely altered the way we move, communicate, love, work, learn, eat, everything. There’s the not so subtle move to becoming a cashless society and with restrictions on gathering due to fear of increased infections we are relegated to communicating by digital means. Zoom, face time, social media, texting etc are our means of communicating. All monitored and slowly censored for content, gradually. 24/7 we are becoming infected with being on screens, increasing our anxieties, decreasing our abilities to focus due to overstimulation of screens. We even try to do yoga and meditate…online LOL. We are plugged into the matrix voluntarily.

Forced change. makes me think of the experiment of the frog in the hot water. Put a frog in water that is boiling it hops right out; place a frog in water and slowly heat it up, it’s too late for the frog to hop out by the time it realizes the water is boiling. We are experiencing the latter.

We aren’t hugging, kissing or allowed to show affection so the withdrawals of human touch are increasing. Restrictions on who is allowed to be present as one enters this world… and departs. Weddings and graduations are live-streamed as are dance parties and funerals. And for those that choose to defy the restrictions there is the risk of carrying the virus and infecting others who may not be as fortunate to be asymptomatic, often resulting in death. The dilemma, do we go see grandma, or other elder relatives, not knowing how much longer they will be around and risk infecting them and killing them or try to hold onto the memory of the last time we touched them?

C-19 is the catalyst of change in 2020. Forcing us to rethink how we move. Increasingly requiring us to be more aware of why we leave our homes to go anywhere. Timing of outings. Mask or no mask? C-19 reveals the audacity of individuals and how much we take our relationships and connections for granted. How innocent to want to visit your parents or grandparents as usual only to infect them and one or both of them becomes sick or even dies. Whose fault is that? is there anyone to blame?

This post may seem heavy and dark however it’s actually my coaxing us to take a moment during these upcoming paid days off for many, to reflect on what we take for granted in our lives. Spend some time asking yourselves,