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PERSPECTIVES BY SKC
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Is The New Normal Really New?
How will the post COVID19 world be like? Pre or post-pandemic, humanity remains driven by its emotions. These are mostly compulsive and it’s the fundamental human struggle of choosing between compulsion or liberation. The new normal will be hyper in its nature. Survivors will be hyper about their survival.
Instincts will flare-up, emotions will run at an all-time high, conflicts – both inner and external will enhance. The Maslow Pyramid’s Physiological, Safety, Love & Belongingness and Self Esteem will be the key drivers for Survivors amongst us.
A flared up hyper survival will get driven by our compulsive emotions like fear, comparison, competitiveness, approvals, validations, need to prove our worth, anxiety, attention, depression, and more.
This hyper survival will be displayed in the following four ways:
Those of us who are driven by Logic and Justification will make our heads spin trying to justify all our feelings and thoughts. We would want answers till we either find them or hit our life fatigue. We will cite data, numbers, analysis, history and find some solace as well as some way forward through this mental process. Living with these compulsions, we remain mentally occupied and keep evaluating situations, other people, their behaviours and keep justifying our convictions while at our core we live in fear of our survival! Desperate to find a way!
Those driven by a tendency for Escape will find places to hide. Paralysed by fear, will we be confused about venturing out at all or not? We will display a tendency to listen more favourably to those who advise absolute precaution. We would not want to take any decision at all. We will eventually let others decide for us and then blame it on them. Most of our time would be spent on hiding under the covers of books, watching TV, social media, even spirituality! To know ourselves, we just need to be aware of our Intent. Our truth must be known to us, at least!
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