Hello everyone,
This topic deviates slightly from the theme of this website. Due to the nature of the current crises relating to COVID-19 and social distancing, we cannot but add a word or two to help everyone in distress and bring a sense of sanity into a rather chaotic atmosphere.
As we all know and have seen, COVID-19 is a pandemic that is real. We’ve all seen its devastating effects. Many lives have been lost, and many jobs and savings have been erased. To those who have lost loved ones, my condolences.
Life, as we know it, is never a straight line. In most cases, it can be compared to the bear and bull markets of the stock market or the high and low octaves and frequencies of a symphony orchestra. Life, in a nutshell, is like music. The vicissitudes and trials of life are sometimes very hard to bear for many. Especially when many families suddenly become destitute. Life has its own way. Many basic elements of life, such as fire, water, air, and the earth, and many forces to which we are all subjected at momentary times in life probably have their own reasons, especially when solutions are not timely within human reach.
No matter the situation in life, we all need to remember that fear and anxiety only compound issues and make it difficult the ability to harness the power within, which is capable of carrying anyone through such a calamitous situation.
“There is no defeat in life saves from within; unless you are beaten there, you are bound to win”. Everything passes, and life has been through such a period in the past. We are bound to win again.
Sara Treasdale captures this well in her poem, The Philosopher:
“I saw him sitting at his door, trembling as old men do; his house was old; his barn was old; and yet his eyes seemed new.
His eyes had been seen three times my age and kept a twinkle still, though they had looked at birth and death, and three graves on the hill.
“I will sit down with you,” I said, “and you will make me wise; tell me how you have kept the joy still burning in your eyes.”
Then, like an old-time orator, he impressively rose: “I make the most of all that come, the least of all that goes.”
The jingling rhythm of his words echoes as old songs do, yet this had kept his eyes alight till he was ninety-two.
So, dear comrades, these also shall pass. Let us continue to make the most of all that comes. Let us use the luck down to reflect on who we really are, why we are here, and to connect with ourselves within, which more than often has been ignored by many. We all need to remember that divine power is beyond all our material accumulations; it is more than the mortal bricks of our churches, schools, and jobs. These divine powers have always been what they were, are what they are now, and will always be what they have always been, whether we know it or not. It is beyond religion and science. It is beyond any human ideology.
Thank you.
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