Well you really have us frightened now with this invisible virus. You have a funny way of working though, don’t you? Teaching us lessons in your special way. I’ve learned a lot from you over the years. How you like to throw curveballs just because you think I can handle them. How at any given moment, life as I knew it can be all over. In the blink of an eye everything changed. How not to take you for granted. But even recognizing that isn’t enough for you.
Obviously, lately, we’ve been misbehaving in some way and you’ve decided we all need a time out. I don’t blame you and sort of completely agree that we collectively may have needed a time out. But do so many people have to die?
You have a way of lulling us with your calm water with invisible currents that drag us out to class 5 rapids without paddles and life jackets. Banging us against every rock and sharp edge. And just when we get into some calm waters – a whirlpool sucking us down into it.
But don’t forget, Life, you have toughened me quite a bit and I’ve learned from the lessons you taught me. So I’ll stay here in my house, stay away from others and wait for our collective time out to end.
This is my letter to myself for the writing prompt – Let’s Write Letters
What have you learned from life in all these years?
That it’s very precious and we need to take care of each other.
That’s a beautiful lesson 🙂
Great post, I like how you don’t coddle life as if we have to be grateful even for the lousy times.
And ‘collective time out’ is a beautiful way to describe current times. I never considered it as a time out, more like our karma for being materialistic planet destroying oblivious people. Time outs make more sense. 🙂