While democracy in the US was challenged by gun wielding country folks who are too scared to fight the real enemies and are too ignorant not to hold automatic rifles in the face of children & normal peaceful citizens, the political rift opened up years and years of systemic racism, legal terrorism and the need of the citizens to depend on laws to convince them of their powers as decent humans.
It seemed for a while that the cosmic consciousness is on a reverse swing, almost determined to hit rock bottom by the close of 2020. Yet, millions of people across the world came out as the living, breathing symbol of divinity that is within humans. True it may be that forces of evil are stronger than before, but divinity is not lost either.
Millions of people stepped out of their comfort zone to help someone else in need. And millions of more people showed their adaptability to the new normal – social distancing, remote working, new profession etc. Adaptability is challenging billions of working people around the globe – finding newer ways to work & put food on the table & keep a roof on their family’s head.
People who are born with the golden spoon are also facing discomforts, which, by measure of their lifestyle is majorly disrupting their lives. Many are unable to go shopping for fancy clothes, many are inconvenienced by not able to go to parties, many are heart broken that they are not able to make a dinner reservation because of the pandemic!
Such is the contrast and such is the contradiction! All for a short lifespan of a 100 years! While many are dead & many more dying everyday from the pandemic, many are growing their financing and materialistic hoards using this pandemic as a god-sent event. The year 2020 might be over but the sentiments & psychic energies are not.
I remained an observer, often too confused for action, often too afraid of non-action. I swayed between an urge to cry out in shame and the desperate demands to remain a quiet observer who would just not conceive or complain. A year down that path, I have become more patient and I do not know if its what I needed or what I was in fact hoping to happen for years! Either way, I am slowly learning to be!