Winning this Battle

The world as we have known it, changed forever.

These are difficult times, many are losing their lives, many are facing irreparable illness, industries are being shut down, and jobs are being lost.

Many are also opening their eyes to new possibilities.
Some are reconnecting with loved ones.
The world of remote work has been catalysed into reality.
New industries are being born.
The environment has had an opportunity to regenerate.
Humans going out of their way to help other humans.
While self-isolated, as a community, we have never been closer.

We will look back on these times in a year, in a decade, and tell the stories to anyone who will listen about the times we saw a young masked-man scurry away with 27 bags of toilet paper; groups singing across the streets with neighbours in defiance and in unity; and young athletes pouring dishwasher liquid on their kitchen floor to simulate a treadmill experience. Surreal, but we are living it.

While self-isolated, as a community, we have never been closer.
We are resilient, as individuals and as a collective.
We are in it together. Some affected much worse than others.

It has filled me with such hope to see so many acts of generosity during this time.
I want to implore anyone reading this: If you are in a position to help an individual or a group that has been financially affected, please consider doing so. A landlord that can afford to waive rent. An employer that can afford to pay those wages. A company that can afford to provide that essential service for free. This is a time for enhanced empathy, that will hopefully become a muscle that we develop far beyond this crisis.

Let us fight through these times, remember the detail of how it made us feel, and use this feeling to come out stronger on the other side as a more generous, grateful society.