As our isolation continues the initial enthusiasm is gone. We realize slowly that this reality we are facing will probably be a part of our life for an undefinded long time. Unless, the Israelis will come up with a vaccine. And as already one arab country after the other is announcing that they gonna take it, I definitely TRUST in TEAM ISRAEL, YALLA!
But having a closer look at our daily life, the winners seem to be clear. People in loving, caring, and supporting families/communities. I am happy for everybody who is already part of such a family, but also for those who now see clearly what they lack. And where they will be heading once this is over.
So how does my life look like right now? Although I stay most of my time at home, I never looked this homeless. Although I wear so much sportswear, I have never been so inactive. Although I drink so much wine, I never had so little “savoir vivre” in my life. And although I started to buy stuff online, I never needed so little as now.
But I also haven’t been this tanned and juicy in years. I have never been saving so much money I do currently. I was never so hard working as I am now. Corona is enhancing our lives like a magnifiying glass. I feel that my work is swallowing me completely and there is no space anymore for myself or anything else. While other people on the opposite have to stay home and are confronted with themselves. Life will always serve you the lesson that you need.
What is happening now on a global level is nothing else than a social revolution. Didn’t we have enough of exploitation? 8.000 children die daily from hunger, but nobody is posting this on social media, because this is not a disease that can affect the rich and mighty. And only now we will meet ourselves at our limits of solidarity. Our governments are telling us to be solidary with our elder people, but the reality looks quite different. People are just afraid and see their enemy in every person. There is a big generation gap and little of understanding of what we currently go through.
But how could we take care of others, if we are not even able to take care of ourselves? This isolation is also confronting us with our shadows. The parts of us we like to hide underneath a busy lifestyle, underneath our need to help others, our need to numb ourselves, our need to impress others. But the thing is, there is nothing that I could say to make you feel better, but this one thing: Life loves you, and life will only confront you with things you are for sure able to handle. Life happens FOR you, and not TO you. This might sound harsh, but growth always happens outside the comfort zone and with a bit of pain. So this is the time to confront yourselves and deal with parts that could have stayed hidden.
“Love thy neighbour as thyself.”
How do we meet other people? Just the way we are able to meet ourselves. So if we look into the mirror. Do we love ourselves? Do we trust ourselves? Do we support ourselves? Are we able to meet others with a positive intention? This thought is the seed we are planting for every interaction we have with ourselves as well as others. And especially now that we cannot hide beneath our everyday life, this intention and thoughts become much clearer.
The detachment of your community resulted in the outcome, that acting in our best own interest couldn’t include others anymore. And what was the driving force for this? Our ego. So if we want to be connected again, we have to leave behind not only our ego, but also our loneliness, our feeling of “I am the only person in the world”, the comparison with others, and especially the putting ourselves above others.
And what function does Corona have in all this? It is dissolving our ego. It is breaking our isolation that we feel. How does this relate to the ongoing April holidays? If we look at Pessach the exit and return from Egypt became the exit and return from our ego. And if we look at Easter we understand that Jesus was carrying the cross for us, just as we need to carry it now, for ourselves, for humanity. We know that Jesus was suffering for us, ALL BY HIMSELF, without knowing us. What is the price for us to leave the world of the ego? What do we have to realize and understand, but also to take on us (responsibility and integrity) to dissolve it?
After Corona was under control in Italy, there were groups of people who met up and were talking and sharing on what they experienced. And what was striking was that the Italians were saying: We cannot go back to normal. After you have been through all this fear and pain, this changes you, it transforms you, maybe even dissolves you. People need to get aware of the upcoming changes. The more you will resist to those changes, the more you will try to hold on to the old, the more in pain you will be. Every person who stood at the crossroads of life understands that you need to let go of something in order to receive something new with open arms.
But this time the change won’t be coming from the governments, because we all can see how restricted their options are. We can all see how helpless they are at the moment. The change is a social one, not a forced one upon us. But one that is coming from within. We are the generation that is questioning the system. We are the generation that is questioning what is currently happening to us. We have all the information sources available and we don’t trust our rulers anymore. We understood long time ago that these systems play a zero sum game with us and that we need to create our own structures.
Check out #brooklynforlife where restaurants are cooking for hospitals for free, meanwhile getting some funding from donations. Do you see what is happening? That people are creating social structures by themselves to distribute their resources and support each other. Do you think any system would support this? No, because the system is ego driven and yearning for isolation and a constant yearning within its users. We can create something way more sustainable and we don’t need anybody to show us how, because we all carry this eternal yearning for connection within us.
my beatitude 
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