03-18-2020, 03:52 PM
Didn't know if anyone has an interest to share any daily little stories or thoughts as we collectively experience this history. Figured I toss this out here.
3/18 - Storm warning
So after 2 months and hundreds of hours focused on this virus (thanks a lot kander
I woke with a sense of clarity and calm for the first time in many days. The full extent of the historic change at hand dwarfs anything I've ever experienced, so blatantly immense there's nothing anyone can really do but stay out of the way, try not get swept out, and find a nice place from which to watch it unfold.
With this new perspective, I set off to town to feather our nest and make it a bit more comfortable. Everywhere people were running around preparing, but only only a handful were wearing a mask. The millenials seemed in especially high spirits, lots of touching and close contact, flexing their sense of invulnerability. Ran across one that had placed a cart diagonal across the lane, blocking it, while looking for at an item on the shelf. After waiting several long seconds, I said excuse me and he rolled his eyes to look at me. A moment of eye contact was enough for him to reconsider and make way. Just another punk teenager, as we all were once. This too will pass.
After several stops and many stares, I finished my hunting and gathering. My bank account lost some digits, but I got several cartloads of goodies, which seems the better deal, especially now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzeCv_WFnY
Driving home, I thought about each house that passed by. Like a old god, this virus will develop a personal relationship with each community. For some it will pass by lightly and for others it will reap whole families. We've heard it all before, but never had to live it. What is past is prologue.
It'd be some cold comfort to believe it's just evolution killing off the dumb who choose not to heed the warnings. But in reality, this virus will kill many who trusted their fellow people to be concerned about others and their health and well-being. Foolishness of another type apparently.
With each passing day, our plans, our lives, our world "but doth suffer a sea-change, into something rich and strange." The most wondrous and tragic scenes spill forth laying out a path to follow. Where all this is headed is unclear, but we're all going there together. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
3/18 - Storm warning
So after 2 months and hundreds of hours focused on this virus (thanks a lot kander
I woke with a sense of clarity and calm for the first time in many days. The full extent of the historic change at hand dwarfs anything I've ever experienced, so blatantly immense there's nothing anyone can really do but stay out of the way, try not get swept out, and find a nice place from which to watch it unfold.With this new perspective, I set off to town to feather our nest and make it a bit more comfortable. Everywhere people were running around preparing, but only only a handful were wearing a mask. The millenials seemed in especially high spirits, lots of touching and close contact, flexing their sense of invulnerability. Ran across one that had placed a cart diagonal across the lane, blocking it, while looking for at an item on the shelf. After waiting several long seconds, I said excuse me and he rolled his eyes to look at me. A moment of eye contact was enough for him to reconsider and make way. Just another punk teenager, as we all were once. This too will pass.
After several stops and many stares, I finished my hunting and gathering. My bank account lost some digits, but I got several cartloads of goodies, which seems the better deal, especially now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzeCv_WFnY
Driving home, I thought about each house that passed by. Like a old god, this virus will develop a personal relationship with each community. For some it will pass by lightly and for others it will reap whole families. We've heard it all before, but never had to live it. What is past is prologue.
It'd be some cold comfort to believe it's just evolution killing off the dumb who choose not to heed the warnings. But in reality, this virus will kill many who trusted their fellow people to be concerned about others and their health and well-being. Foolishness of another type apparently.
With each passing day, our plans, our lives, our world "but doth suffer a sea-change, into something rich and strange." The most wondrous and tragic scenes spill forth laying out a path to follow. Where all this is headed is unclear, but we're all going there together. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
