A test to see if we can rise above our differences. To see if we can unite as one community of nations. The enemy is not the other. It is not China. Our enemy is our selfishness, divisiveness, opportunism, our inability to see what's beyond our closed, comfortable turfs.
Bigger tests are coming.
Winter has come. Global warming is upon us. It is a far bigger challenge. It is planetary in scale. But unlike this pandemic, it directly infects everything we breathe, drink and eat. It's the disease that's creeping into and inhabiting the world we live in. The irreversible consequences are coming.
All our accomplishments are being stress-tested now --- our societies, governments, institutions, systems, rule of law, economic infrastructures and other inventions of human civilization. It's only a dry run.
Bigger tests are coming. We are being prepared.
I hope we can pass the test.
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| Winter is Coming |
"The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters, meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision."---Anais Nin
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