Count your blessings

I remember thinking, during the first and second lockdowns, that at last people were going to be nicer to each other.

It was as if being cut off from family and friends and stopped from doing the things we all took for granted would somehow make us appreciate just what we had.

With the potential for global annihilation from a surprising source and the world stopping, just for moment, it was as if, suddenly, our short time on this earth had been put into perspective.

#BeKind was the mantra. So we were, embracing the thought that life is too brief to squander it on being mean to others, whether it’s backbiting and point scoring or all-out war between nations.

To say I was being naive is an understatement. 

After the threat from covid lifted, the nastiness on a micro level started almost immediately and, through a macro lens, the all-out war just got worse.

It didn’t take long for the human race to go back to square one – manipulative, cruel, unfeeling and deadly.

Are people angrier towards others than they were before Covid 19? Or were we always angry and lacking in patience and empathy?

There are so many horrors going on right now that all any of us can do as individuals is count our blessings and work together for a better world.

In the meantime, there’s a blue sky out there and I’m rejoicing in beautiful days conversing with nature.