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We’re Now at The Intersection Where Peace And Chaos Meets

Is it possible to have more peace and less chaos at this intersection?

By Madoc MPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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We’re Now at The Intersection Where Peace And Chaos Meets
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The pandemic came unannounced. It rattled our lives like roaring thunder and brought almost every activity to a halt. Some were lucky to stay safe in their homes, while the hospitals were the destination of many that would never return to their homes again.

I remember normal and what it was like, but I can’t recall what my predominant thought was because we were all busy with our normal lives. Work, rest, and continue. We continued pushing forward until when the dark cloud stretched to the West, poured down heavily, and splashed everywhere.

Our grip on normal was tight. We saw no reason to decelerate, pause and ponder what we may find in the next turn. What price we might have to pay for avarice, and for severely ridding roughshod on each other.

We reached a tricky curve at a perilous speed. We didn’t bother to slow down to prepare for whatever lies ahead. Causing us to step into a slippery surface barefooted and combat a killer virus without shielding our vulnerable bodies.

Our initial reaction was what it has always been, to think of ourselves alone. We panicked and purchased things we didn’t need. We stuff our homes with stuff that rightfully belongs to others. Fear permeates the atmosphere. Fear of dying of loneliness, depression, and even fear of starvation.

The economy took a hit. Many jobs fazed out, everything came to a halt except online shopping. Amazon stood like an amazon. Amassing sales like never before and making the richest even richer.

Shopping addiction became a means to cure stress and endless anxiety. The number of mental illnesses skyrocketed. Telemedicine swiftly came to the rescue. It becomes a time to slow down, reflect, and gently navigate the sharp bend of our lifetime.

But even as we decelerated and remained inside our homes, we still find it challenging to push chaos aside and find peace because no one knows what next.

The arrival of the vaccines has helped to assuage growing fears, but it didn’t resuscitate normal. Folks that said normal is gone might be right after all because the experiences of those that have returned to normal aren’t what normal used to be. They lament that normally doesn’t feel like normal anymore.

We’re now at a point in our momentary existence where peace and chaos intersect. Where normal won’t feel like normal due to the many sad experiences and because of the gap that now exists between where we were before and where are now. Also, to have respectively discovered a new normal through our diverse experiences is why normal won’t feel like normal again.

This intersection is where we brought ourselves over time. This is where we are staying for as long as we can imagine because chaos and endless uncertainty have come to dwell with peace. What this means is that we can’t have one without the others.

We didn’t only work hard all these years to develop companies that provided jobs and generated zillions of dollars. We also succeeded in creating a worrisome discord between us and our host planet.

We selfishly and doltishly altered the balance to our favor to the extent that we’ve almost removed ourselves from the broad shoulder of the planet that has hosted us for years…We forget that we can’t get rid of the planet, but it can get rid of us to recondition itself.

We’re now at a phase where finding peace has become a struggle. Where the wind of fear and uncertainty daily encircle the atmosphere.

The pandemic and the lockdown gifted everyone a wrapped package which you and I must accept and unwrap. When you open yours, you decide for yourself what your new normal would be and what it shouldn’t be. The old normal is gone. A new one that’s filled with fear and uncertainty is what we have now.

Getting at this intersection and realizing that we’re not leaving anytime soon is a timely reminder that life is ephemeral and that all we have is now. This realization should cause everyone to stop asking what next? And start asking what now?

What’re you going to do with your now?

Are you going to waste it on meaningless pursuits as in the past? Or are you going to live meaningfully knowing that the present moment is all you’ve got?

Focusing on what has been working since we arrived at this intersection and giving zero thought and attention to ideas that would broaden the size of the intersection in your life.

Finding peace at this intersection isn’t impossible but difficult. Because if a weird virus can halt the pace of humanity. Then a sane human can learn how to separate peace from chaos to have more of one and less of the other.

Doing your best each day to stay sane in an insane world is key to finding peace while living in chaos and uncertainty.

This story was previously published on Medium by the same author.

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