We are all waiting for our lives to start again.
For a long time when I was younger, I waited.
I waited for things to get better. I waited for other people to “get the joke”. I waited for the turnaround.
I was trying to make things better, but it always felt like I was always waiting.
I was waiting to see if things would work out, or if things would fall apart.
It’s not a healthy place to live because it takes away your sense of power. You aren’t creating your life when you are waiting for it. You are letting life do whatever it wants and you are just a passenger.
While I was waiting, life was happening.
That’s the thing… Life is always happening right now, in this moment.
This moment is the only place life happens.
So as many of us are sequestered to our homes and waiting for life to start again, we need to come to terms with life that is happening right now.
This is life right now… and maybe that is what we should be questioning.
Should this really be our life right now?
Tim Shelton posted a tweet that said, “At this point, we’ve bloodlessly surrendered the most basic freedoms to the government based on the most confused sets of data and misinformation from EVERY source. Fact: NO ONE knows how many people have/had/will have COVID-19 nor how many have/will die(d) from it.“
In one tweet he has summarized some pretty important points about our freedom and how easily we all surrendered it… “bloodlessly”.
Was our freedom so unimportant to us?
There are approximately 7.5 billion people on the planet and a small few are telling us what should be done right now.
For a long time I made the most of my circumstances. I didn’t question things and I didn’t use my voice .
I just waited.
That didn’t work. I never got to where I wanted to go by waiting for it to happen.
It might be time for us to start asking questions.
It might be time for us to use our voice.
It might be time for us to summon courage, and hope.
Because waiting doesn’t work.