We as humans have often experienced the moment, at a funeral, where everyone is gathering and says, “It shouldn’t be a funeral to get us all together.”
We all knod and agree, but yet we go on about our lives until another death happens, and another funeral comes to pass. It’s true, things happen in our daily lives where we have become all too busy to simply say hello to even a neighbor next door, let alone gather with our friends and family. We ignore our thoughts at the funeral and go on about our way thinking, I’ll do it tomorrow.
However, with all that said and in the midst of wondering myself about humanity on a whole, we have faced the ultimate funeral, covid – 19.
The entire world is mourning and yet even from a distance, albeit the media never shows this, people of all walks of life are banding together. Russians to Italians, America and the likes.
We read to our children on social media and teach school from the internet. People are singing from balconies, calling and checking on their families and sharing what supplies they have.
They want us to believe the worst possible things about our situation, but the truth is, even in the worst we as humans have reached out to hold each other’s hand. There isn’t a certain religion, race or belief system unaffected. It’s all of us. Young and old, men and women and that’s at its simplest form.
I have faith in the human existence because, even when there is the proverbial funeral, we have all showed up to gather. We have all made sacrifices to save each other and that means that covid 19 is not the enemy that killed us, it’s the thing that made us stronger.
Today, is one more day that is closer to the moment we can put this behind us. The question is, can we hold on to each other when it’s gone.
Let’s hope, that we can.
