Page 9 - SKC Newsletter 2020

PERSPECTIVES BY SKC
Those of us who have a tendency for Denial will display an amazing bravado. Our age and health condition won’t matter. We will simply deny the very existence of this threat. Religion, Gods, belief system, philosophy of Life, spirituality, the impermanence of Life, the perennial flow of life, or such arguments will drive our denial of the pandemic or its implications. “We have to learn to live with it”. “I am not going to be a coward”. “I have to ensure the Economy goes on”, etc, are the kind of statements that are crossing our minds already. We wish to wish-away the bleeding truth and this is our way of coping and acceptance.
The most amazing are those of us who have a tendency of aggression. Setting new goals, finding new opportunities, making the best of our talents, surviving against all odds, getting our grit, determination and focus around us to sail through it all will be at display. We will be more aggressive about our products, services, convictions, beliefs. Our need for survival will be at its peak. It’s easy to find us out. Our comments on most posts will be about our products, services, intent to expand our customer base. An intent of selling our products will be clearly displayed even in a comment we make to any unrelated post.
The new normal for survivors will not be much different. Our suffering will continue to increase. Our struggle will continue to increase. Our life will keep slipping away. Our attempts at building our houses of cards will continue with greater zeal. Our relationships will continuously fragment. Our mental health will continue to deteriorate. Our mind will keep coming up with new and innovative schemes to survive and we will continue to fail at these attempts of survival.
Why? Because Survival is not the nature of this creation!
The new normal will also create hyper evolution for those of us who are living for Self Actualisation (Ref: Maslow’s Pyramid). Our ability to overcome the compulsions of our emotional drivers can be honed to perfection at a time when these emotions will surge and display their presence in our lives. For example, when I experience fear of any sort during this pandemic that I believed had been overcome or resolved by me in the past. This incident will tell me my truth, my reality. This will now form the raw material for my evolution.
And during this time, if I remain honest, real, sensitive and receptive to my own feelings, there is a lot that can be processed for my evolution.
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