Do Better

Gratefulness.  So very, very important in these times.  Grateful for my health.  Grateful for my family.  Grateful for our home that keeps us safe.  Grateful for food on the table.  Grateful for insulin that keeps my daughter alive.  Grateful for my job.  And grateful for solo bike rides.  Riding always makes me see things more clearly by raising my level of awareness.  Realizing how humans are the only beings or entities negatively affected by Covid-19 right now.  Think about that for a moment.  My dog has never been happier.  Our planet is healing and able to breathe again.  Wild animals are doing more than fine.  Our marine life is thriving as our waters are being replenished.  The sad truth is that the world would be better off without humans on it…  But there is still always hope.  What if the whole purpose of this pandemic is to teach us that we need to change?   That our survival depends on a life of harmony instead of on a life of fighting?  What if the virus is showing us that nature can never be conquered?  That, in the end, nature always wins?  What if we don’t defeat nature with our man-made vaccines and drugs?  What if these so called remedies or solutions are simply nature giving us a second chance?  What if nature just wants us to be healthy and happy?  But that it also needs us to understand that we are not above it?  That we are a part of it?  Covid-19 is asking for our presence in this moment, showing us that we need to play by nature’s rules instead of by our ego’s rules.  Behind each crisis is an opportunity to learn, a moment to understand better, an invitation to raise our level of awareness.  And once we know better, we are able to do better.  We should not be aiming for back to normal.  We should be striving for better than before.  Stay safe everyone…