We can be forgiven for not quite understanding everything we need to know about the coronavirus, primarily because governments aren’t giving us the information we need or looking to take advice from independent scientists.
Lifestyle changes
We can also be forgiven for not understanding how the virus mutates, but we can't be forgiven for not making lifestyle changes, so that we start to protect ourselves and the natural world from global warming. We are all occupy the same ecosystem, we are part of the natural world.
We are Affecting Global Warming
Our lives should be secondary to that of the natural world. We need to think about things like global warming, what effect our lifestyles are having on the natural world and how we can safeguard the world for future generations. If each of us changed just one thing, just think about how world rich we would all be.
Change or be Changed
With Covid-19, it is important to come away from our experiences with a different thinking. We should use lockdown to reflect how we can and should change moving forward, rather than seeing it as a complete inconvenience. We should come through with a thinking that allows for change. We need to change or be changed, or the natural world will change the world for us.
Climate Change
Climate change is continuing to destroy habitats, which means consequences for the human species too. We need to change voluntarily, rather than having change thrust upon us and with more loss of life. We are fighting for our survival, this is not negotiable.
The only constant in life is change and there isn't much we can do to change that. I grew up in a world where we were forced to deal with so many changes, we had to adapt just to survive.
I have siblings that can attest to how much of a nightmare it really was. Being raised that way meant I thought I had to just accept whatever happened to me. It was only recently that I realized there are some things that I can change like how I react and respond to the changes that occur.
I need to make the changes that I can and not to worry so much about the things that I can't change like my childhood.
Thanks Randy. Yes, I have been where you are. You are very much in the driving seat. You can change what you need to change.
Even more so because you have and are in control. Your parents are no longer around. As you say, there are things you can change, like how you react and respond to 'changes that occur' although like me, you must be that change.
We find ourselves fighting for our survival because we've drifted too far into darkness; nothing betrays us like we do.
So the best thing to do now is to acquire enough knowledge to ensure our safety, this site has been excellent in providing that.
Or we can wait until something appears in the sky to save us from ourselves. I've been looking up there a lot lately.
Thanks Tim. When you take ego out of the equation you will have a different outcome. Our lives revolve around our ego.
Through our egos we've lost our identity or any sense of perspective, putting material wants before our spiritual needs.
We are spiritual beings have an earthly experience, but we're losing sight of what's important, couple that with the ego and we're plunging into the dark, literally. We need to claw it back.
I agree with your portrayal of the 'human condition' and you're right, nothing betrays us like we do. We are continually doing it to ourselves.
We should be using this time of isolation to think about our lives, the natural world and our spiritual values and put those into play moving forward.
As you rightly say we are 'fighting for our survival.' Most of us are, for others it seems it's business as usual.
Thank you, Ilana. I can't help but notice that people are becoming very cavalier about Covid-19, which concerns me because it spreads so easily. This is not the time to be ignorant about something so deadly.
In the states the covid virus has become political, that's a very serious problem too.
We have the same thing in the UK too. Point scoring, and you're right covid is too serious to point score or to make it political. One death is too many. We have 60,000 deaths in the UK. Covid isn't just about death.
Those people belonged to families, they weren't a number, they had names, they had children, they were grandparents, they were parents. They were children, whose lives have been robbed.
That should matter. Unless we claw back, (and this starts with governments) we start taking our problems seriously without being cavalier, there will be more lives lost. Individually we must also do our bit.
It's not just about Covid. There will be more pandemics for us to deal with further down the line. The natural world is fighting back and it's the human species that is losing. There will be more lives lost.