2020 – The year of clarity – Good or bad?
RelationshipFor as long as I can remember we have never before had to deal with so much negative energy “as a society as a whole”…now of course I can’t say that the human race has never dealt with something like this BUT in my time, in our part of the world – not like this year!
What’s the matter you, Your family, your friends How are you and everyone you know? Some of you have experienced devastating challenges as well as losses and/or know someone who has.
What are you doing to get through these tough times? How has 2020 changed you?
This has definitely been the year of clarity for me and my family. I always respected life as short and fragile in many ways. Loss is a part of life that is and always will be inevitable, but in 2020, as a society, we have seen staggering and unimaginable loss.
We have witnessed how fragile our society is when we see people turn on each other and yes, we have witnessed this before, but now we see people who would never hurt anyone become vigilantes, taking the law into their own hands, destroying other people’s lives because they’ve lost, they’re frustrated, they’re hurt!
What can we do? What is the solution? Who can fix this?
Maybe certain key players who are in power in the world could have handled things better, maybe you or your neighbor could have handled things better, but you know what really bugs me?
When other people make me feel like I’m the problem for wearing a mask, or worrying that COVID-19 will kill someone in my family, like my 5-year-old granddaughter, who last year before COVID-19 almost lost her life from a common cold when her lungs collapsed due to her being immunocompromised. What will happen if COVID-19 reaches our home? Someone is going to die.
So I’m not being overly dramatic, I’m in protection mode!
And how has the pandemic affected you (which I add that we had nothing to do with the creation of this number)? Are you surprised how it has brought out the worst in humanity?
Now, in saying that, I have also witnessed an amazing range of people who, for lack of better words, sacrificed their own safety to help people they didn’t even know or might have turned the other way and ignored what It was happening.
As an example on a smaller scale… my son, who was a security guard in a very busy city, caught many culprits taking advantage of the pandemic and stealing with the intention of reselling just for a profit (they didn’t actually do it). necessity, it was greed).
There was a guy who came into his store and stole a phone charger, upon arresting the young man, my son asked him why he was stealing, what made him want to steal. It was obvious that he had never done this before.
As a quick side note, most of the time when my son was arresting people he was always curious as to why people were stealing, sometimes it was obvious but other times it didn’t make sense; sometimes he would find himself giving people breaks (pre-COVID-19) and talking to them and directing them in ways that help.
Going back to this young man… he proceeded to tell my son that he has no money, no job, no place to live. The only thing left was a cell phone that lost its charger. He said that he saw a very nice and expensive charger that would have been great, but he stole only what he really needed: a $20 charger to spend… he said that due to COVID-19 he was in this situation: his employer was closed. down and he didn’t qualify for any funding because of the mistakes he made in his past. He then said that he can deal with a lot of things, but if he loses the ability to use his cell phone in the Wi-Fi hubs, he can’t keep in touch with the world he used to know, then that would be the last straw. filled the glass.
I’m really thinking about a cell phone, I can’t relate to that and thank God I’ve been lucky I don’t have to. I have been unlucky many times not knowing where I was going to get $10 but never homeless and never without some kind of moral support.
This guy had “nothing” and just for the record my son found out about all of this only because he insisted on finding out why this guy would steal a cheap charger when his record showed he had never been charged for anything and because of the way he stole the charger…my son knew this guy was no good at stealing.
So my son, who takes his job seriously and would normally send the guy for free because he felt bad for him and believed in the guy… decided to have the guy who stole the charger sit in the room by himself. and he told her to think about what had happened but that he would be right back.
He went back and gave the guy the charger he stole and gave him some places to go where they will help him, give him rest and feed him. He then sent him on his way, but the young man was puzzled.
He asked my son why he would allow me to steal this charger after arresting me for basically the exact same thing. My son proceeded to tell him “I’m not going to let you steal it, I bought it for you as a gift to help you and I hope you will follow some of my advice and seek the help you need and I hope life treats you better.” since right now you’re out of luck, but things will get better” WOW! – That’s my boy!
I’m telling this story because you have to meet my son, he has a good heart but if you met him in a dark alley you would shit your pants as this guy is big and scary. serious and not let people steal merchandise. He has been in situations where he was almost stabbed, shot, punched in the mouth and lost his teeth, but he still shows compassion for those who deserve it and sometimes even those who don’t!
Why can’t we as a human race, regardless of color, gender, origin, etc., show a few moments of compassion towards others?
Why haven’t we learned that other people have feelings, they have families, they are human beings who hurt just like everyone else – their stories have made them who they are and their circumstances encourage them to behave as they do – the only thing I encourage them to do ( if nothing else): the next time you see someone who makes you angry, ask yourself why and try to look beyond the immediate performance and think “What has happened to this person to cause them to act this way or speak this way? ? – this can help defuse a very volatile situation I know for a fact as I have been in some very serious situations that could have changed my life in a very bad way but here I am talking to you today!
I am interested in hearing about your experiences with COVID-19 and the impact it has had on your life. Just know that you may be in a sticky situation and it may seem like no one cares, but I can GUARANTEE you somewhere in the big bad. world, someone cares.
Be blessed!