Me? I am just a symptom!

This year of 2020 will be remembered by how we all faced up to the world pandemic, and how, as human beings, we are capable of many good and not so good things.   

I can only praise the creativity of many of us, the dedication and the help we have received from, and some times given to, others.  

Have been lucky to be part of families as well as communities which came together via zoom and other means to help each other. With ups and downs, it has also been possible to many of us get by if not improve our quality of life, and keep smiling.  

Myself, I have been fortunate to find a new balance in what I do.  And to acknowledge what and who I really value.  Despite my best attempts to be who I am not,  I have found that I value family, respect, honesty and support above other things.  And I still tend to please others.  

So if you ask me what has happened with me this year, I can only say: “Me?  I am just a symptom.  As such it comes and goes, and it is (not) that important in the grand scheme of things...”

Ending 2020 on a high, I would like to say thank you to those who helped me.  And thank you to those who I try to help. 

What is for 2021?  

Well, lots of things I guess.  

Let us try to be instruments of greater and good purposes.   

Pandemic: Useful and not so useful discussions

I am now at a virtual meeting...and writing this.  

Despite the pandemic, some things seem to remain.  The competition, the "I am better than you", "it cannot be done", the “I do what I want” resurface.  

And I fight back with similar things.

This world pandemic has made us more prone to defend what we know, to do what we had in the backlog list, and to express our fears in different ways.  We have had to simplify our views of the world, and in many cases, to entrench ourselves.

Where have we left the usefulness of having a discussion not to win, or to 'move forward'?

Yes, time is precious, life is precious, let us keep the conversation going, but let’s also acknowledge that it is not about you or me only, it is about the world.