the world feels silent
it probably has to do with the fact that my home is silent, everyone’s asleep, and for once I don’t have music or videos playing, but there is no sound. no cars speeding down the street on this Friday night, no neighbors enjoying their drunken karaoke, not even the pets that are usually heard at odd times throughout the night.
it all seems quiet, stopped.
it happens from time to time. your body will force you to stop.
you’ll get sick in the midst of a stressful month at work or at university. no matter how much you struggle to keep on pushing, there comes a point of shutdown.
is it possible that this happens with the Earth, too?
removing complex issues, such as the origin of coronavirus and the way it is spreading around the world, our world today is so still {and frightened}, the buzzling in the streets has subsided, the rush to work has been replaced with remote shifts from home, and the travel plans have been cancelled.
it has all gone… stop.
all of it, just stopped. it seems silly to even consider some plans that are barely a month old, weeks old, days old even, in the case of countries who have just recently ordained quarantine and have made evident that, yes, this is not a drill. we are living in those times we have read about. there is a pandemic. and we do not know what the other side of it looks like?
do we think about that often? because it applies to some many things. it is a present element in this life, isn’t it? the uncertainty; the up today, down the next. this is part of living in the world. we’re just not aware of it most of the time, because it doesn’t tend to be pushed against our faces. it can be avoided… or so we think.
except for tragic times, that reality can usually be avoided.
the good in this bad? {come on, we always need to find it!}. we are -not physically, but you get it- all in this together.