Isn’t it? Doesn’t it feel like everything is remote and sideways? The breakers move further from the shore in a distant crooked line swaying in sync with the current. I reach out to touch the waves with my tiny hand, lost in the chaos.
Every mourning feels like the previous as I go through the motions to awaken and satisfy my thirst for java. For a while, I lay still, contemplating the day of the week. Is it Thursday? Saturday? The only thing keeping me tied to real knowledge of time is my classes that will soon end. What day of the week will I wake up to in my mind and memory after May 20th? Likely Groundhog Day–the 1993 American fantasy comedy directed by Harold Ramis (screenplay by Danny Rubin w/Ramis as co-writer), starring Bill Murray. That’s what every day feels like, except then I won’t be working such long hours and that will feel like the much-needed break I’ve been looking forward to.
Some days are harder than others. I feel deep empathy for everyone in healthcare who work excruciatingly long hours, determined to save each patient from the killer. They are beyond superheroes and superstars. They are Wonder People. For all the current students in allied healthcare fields who look out at the horizon to what lay before them when they finish their studies, you, too, are superstars. You are strong and essential. The current staff in hospitals need relief. They need you. We need you. Thank you for your willingness to serve.
Every day a new sadness rises with the sun. People die. We mourn. We can’t grasp any real meaning of all of this except the one piece of sunlight that carries the earth’s happiness and flourishing while the humans are on pause.
Are we willing to fully transform and do a reset? I think millions are ready for this, but the powerful money people will work hard to thwart real change.