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You can feel it in the air, you talk to your friends about it: the pandemic is on the wane. Although there are still many cases of infection worldwide, countries are one by one lifting restrictions, removing mandatory masks and allowing air travel.
Health ministries have updated incidence data and report continued declines in all indicators, including incidence rates and hospital occupancy. To some extent, the current pandemic is under control. It looks like the fifth wave is coming to an end, and in just a few weeks we will be able to breathe again.
Whether or not the coronavirus completely recedes, it is unlikely that we will get rid of nature’s blows so easily. Because if not this strain, there will be another strain or new problems that no one expects. How to live under such conditions?
The current pandemic and every crisis we know of is nature’s response to individualism. It requires an interconnectedness among people that will allow them to merge in harmony with all parts of the biosphere. So nature will continue to deliver blow after blow to get people back on the right track.
We cannot ignore the good that the covid has given us. We are used to living at home more, spending time with family, doing things together, learning online and discovering the beauty in the simple things around us.
The coronavirus trimmed the excess fat of human society: less unnecessary businesses, less pointless activities, less absurd waste and pollution. He taught us how to live without going crazy. And now, even if the epidemic is shrinking at a certain rate, we must of our own volition continue the line of change it has begun and expand the work of creating a good and balanced life.
Above all, we need to provide a better education for our children, to raise their awareness of integral nature, human nature, and the desired interrelationships between people. Second, we need to look at how we can create the necessary conditions for each individual and each family, how to provide vital food supplies, and how to prepare for the impending climate crisis and another series of illnesses.
Humanity has been so busy fighting the pandemic that we must now make rebuilding society our top priority. We must use the respite to heal the real disease found in society and to mend our relationships in all aspects of life.
The truth is that it’s important to solve problems together, to take care of everything that people have neglected for years. That in itself is already half the cure. The problem is the lack of good human connection between people; it’s the natural disconnect that gnaws at us. If we deal only with the basic and necessary things that need to be taken care of now, we will find that the most important thing is the friendship between people and the sense of brotherhood and solidarity. In the close spiritual connection between people, a new life unfolds, and when we get close to each other, we really rise to a new level of existence.
Ideal conditions are now in place for fundamental social change. In many cases, we no longer have to work physically, spend money as if there is no tomorrow, or even leave the house. With calm, prudent, deliberate steps and a steady mindset, we can change our way of life without experiencing tragic situations. The fatigue, weakness, exhaustion and burnout that we are experiencing now are also going our way. They urge us to mobilize more of our inner, spiritual strength to help us create a happy, fulfilling life for ourselves.
