We are living through some ‘interesting’ times. Historic times. Anxious times. Uncharted territory. Frightening times for some.

I find that if I can approach each day as follows;  one breath at a time, one moment at a time, one step at a time, and one prayer at a time, I feel a sense of satisfaction, accomplishment, comfort, and peace when I lay my head on the pillow at night. 

In addition to my approach, I also have a few items from my survival tool kit that I employ. The top five are meditation, prayer, a bit of laughter, listening to my favorite tunes, and reading the inspirational words of others.  In this post, I’d like to share the words of Indian writer, author, and activist Arundhati Roy (author of the award-winning novel The God of Small Things) in the hopes that her words might bring comfort and a new way to view this place of limbo we find ourselves in. Her words certainly moved me and brought me peace. This is an excerpt from her article The Pandemic is a Portal.

“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality,’ trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality.”

“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”

Until next time…

DG

excerpted from YES! MAGAZINE © 2020

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