I love you. For paying attention.

Paying attention during Covid-19 is a matter of survival.
Covid-19 Lockdown D25





For the first time the world is paying attention like no other time on no other subject than death. Or avoiding death.
Mankind is finally confronted en masse with our mortality.

Knowing that we will die, suddenly jolts us, at least the majority of us, to consciousness. To conscious compliance.

That is exactly what the world needs now. Consciousness. And of course love. 
In this case, self love.

We are not only paying attention to death numbers globally but we are paying attention to every communication on the pandemic and to everything and everyone else around us.
We pay attention to the people on the streets, in the grocery stores, in the public areas.
We are finally forced to be present. We no longer walk with our faces buried in our devices, we are more aware of our surroundings. The way it was supposed to be when we live among human beings. Although we're looking at others with cautiousness we're looking at each other nonetheless. Something we rarely, if never do.
People are connecting in ways never before thought possible. We have even honed our peripheral vision to an art. Hardly anything or anyone nearby escapes our attention.

People in organisations are also paying attention to output not process and discovering that working from home or off-site has multiple benefits. 
It increases productivity and lowers costs. Travelling time and costs, office space and staff expenses. Plus other hidden costs that impacts bottom line.

For the conscious, we begin to notice the things we take for granted like the sky, how blue it is, the clouds, how white they are, the trees, how majestic they stand, the finer details of nature,  the flowers bloom brighter, even the grass look greener in our own backyard. Due to much lower levels of noise, the birds seem to sing a lot louder and sweeter.

Families get closer, friends renew friendships and memories, forging new bonds, and fresh meaning. Now's the time to discover new things about old friends, pay attention to family and spouses when we aren't in a hurry. 
Lesson to learn is; to slow down to the speed of life. 

Nature is showing us the follies of mankind's mad rush to destruction and that man like nature can heal and blossom just the same. All we have to do is slow down and pay attention to everything and everyone in our presence. And live. 

With this new consciousness we also learn, see and experience new insights & perspectives from around the world during this pause.

1. That the next world war is not about sophisticated nuclear weapons or atomic bombs, it's about how we fight and contain an invisible little protein called a virus.

2. The superiority of the West is discovered to be deeply steeped in arrogance and ignorance. Not to mention misogynistic and racist.

3. Religions and religious leaders have no answers to the pandemic. Most of their sacred rituals for an abundant after life have been abandoned for basic survival in this life. Activities deemed to be sacrosanct or prohibited are declared acceptable in times like these, like using pure alcohol hand sanitisers and not attending worship service on specific days of the week. 

4. Health Professionals are the true heroes of our world. They are definitely worth more than politicians. These are the brave individuals who run towards danger to help, to comfort, to heal. 

5. Oil is worthless in society with no consumption. Investments in renewable energy will pay off.

6. We now know how animals in captivity feel, while we ourselves are kept in quarantine. 

7. The earth can heal and regenerate without human intervention. Even better without humans. 

8. Most of us can easily work from home. It has produced amazing results in the past few weeks. 

9. Cooking is an amazing skill to learn, experience and experiment. Men can do it as well. 

10. Sting said it; How Fragile we are. So please handle with tender loving care.


This is my list of 10 things based on my observations till now. What's yours?

Stay tuned. Literally.