What do we
do when the world suddenly starts standing still? What do we do when our box suddenly becomes
smaller and smaller until it’s just you, in a room, in your head? What do we do when we have time to stop and
smell the roses?
Our
Government wants us to socially distance ourselves from other people and
self-isolate. It’s all quite
understandable really, this virus is rapidly spreading around the globe and needs
to be contained. We do this by not
giving it anywhere to go, we suffocate it.
It dies out and we all go back to our lives the way they were before. Problem solved?
We still must
do something with our time after we’ve watched all we can watch on
Netflix. Isolation for some people is stress-free,
a respite of time between the chaos of life in this modern world. For others, isolation is a challenge because
there might be an absence of distractions that ‘everyday’ life provides.
We are all submerged
deep into a ubiquitous consumer culture where we all are chasing dreams that commercials
hypnotized us to believe in. The
Coronavirus has lifted the veil of society and has exposed all its working
parts for what they are. Much in the
same way Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz did, or Neo at the end
of The Matrix. The fabric that
holds society and its structures together has been torn, exposing a weakness
that greatly disturbs our fragile sense of security.
Now we are
all in a self-imposed form of solitary confinement, while our leaders scramble
to kill this virus. Our part is to stay
calm and get out of the way. Society has
always overseen our mental programming, where most of us don’t know how to work
it on our own. We are marooned with our
own thoughts and possibly a stranger looking back at us in the mirror.
This is the
true virus that COVID – 19 has infected us all with. Most of us don’t know ourselves because we’ve
been always living the dreams of the Privileged, the true owners of it all. We’ve been so distracted with TV, mobile
phones, game show elections, and 40-hours a week unending jobs, that we haven’t
really been able to stop and see through the facade of society. Our ‘purposes’ have been suspended and what’s
left is the fear of the unknown, and we hate the things we fear.
When will
this be over? When will I get my life
back? Will I be bankrupt when all is
said and done? This is what the ‘hell of
isolation’ can feed the brain while it's kept in a box. So how do we look on the brighter side of
things without deluding ourselves? The world
is going to change one way or another because of this global shutdown. Take this time while looking at those four walls
and think, self-examine, and then re-imagine the possibilities of what our change
can bring back to the world.
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