Overcoming Disruption (Spoken Word)

Disruption…

As we see in the world around us, the Coronavirus effects interfering with international travel, disrupting economies, taking lives, yielding opportunity for terrorists to take advantage of destabilized operations, and agencies losing funding to keep operations going.

It’s like a carefully orchestrated plan to tear apart everything that a person would reach for to regain stability in times of trouble.

It’s a psychological terrorism, in a way – almost more than physical because its infecting people with fear of the unknown, fear of being close. It has larger effects of fear of investing – whether it’s in business ventures, education, relationships.

There is probably not one place that isn’t affected right now.

What this pandemic is doing is leveraging us to give up on our higher ideals – maybe even give up our morality in the struggle for survival.

But, that makes us descend back into the primal hindbrain of fight, flight, or freeze.

That throws us into violence again: a state of distrust – of distressed competition with one another. It causes us to discard ties. It causes us to lose faith in ourselves, in the world, and in each other.

These things that it is causing in us with negative reactionism – these things are the tools, the currency of Evil.

Whether or not evil is behind this, the defragmentation of human society capsizing, collapsing as the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs begins to disintegrate, ends up being on the side of evil.

So, it seems to me, now more than ever, we must not give into succumbing to despair. We must not yield our beliefs, nor our investments – but rather, step to the side, rest, and wait for a better time to promote those things which we value.

There are more things that we can do: we can build further strategies so that when the system comes back on line, we can plug in – stronger than ever, with more to our advantage, during this delay.

There are always silver linings to be found: there are always opportunities, when there is tragedy.

It has been said that there cannot be good without evil. Therefore, if that is true, then there cannot be evil without good.

And it is up to us to find, hold onto, and continue promoting the good in our humanity. It is up to us to remember and promote these higher ideals.

It is up to us to not give into anger or despair.

That is not to say we can’t feel anger or despair. But to let them take over our hind brain and manipulate us into actions we would later regret – into directions we would not have considered before – is to be avoided.

Allowing circumstances to leverage our good reason in directions that are not good for us, ultimately, is the wrong way to go.

The grass is green, the sprinklers are still flowing, nature moves forward: We Are Surviving.

This is a delay. It’s a setback. It’s a loss. But that does not mean we will miss our triumph – or Our Winning.

And we must hold secure and keep our eyes on the horizon, waiting for our right timing to reemerge.

(July 13, 2020)

My Spoken Word: https://soundcloud.com/user-213139500/overcoming-disruption-spoken-word-71320