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Pandemic (Reflection)

joseph1956Posted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago3 min read


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Loneliness took possession of the spaces, even of those that were once noisy and busy.

It took over the streets of the populated centers and reigned for an indeterminate period of time reminding humans that they are fragile and ephemeral..

A new enemy has taken over the planet, without sides or friends, without flags to defend or wave, without distinguishing social or racial classes, with the power to be the emissary of terror and apocalypse.

Silent, treacherous, carrying death in his hands, exposing the misery of each person, teaching them that living does not subscribe to exist but also to share, give, receive, love and respect the common and natural spaces..

The vanity of the great powers was made a fool of by the certainty that the weapons of mass destruction that have cost millions of plates of food, leaving an equal number of families hungry, only serve for the evil and vile self-destruction but not to carve out the future path of humanity..

To embrace each other now is forbidden and we realize that we have been selfish in denying our hand and affection to our neighbor, that we have walked without holding on to the magic of love for those around us and the charity of those who have needed it..

We have awakened from the nightmare of individualism, from the irrelevant company of the family, from the passion of habit and routine.

We have realized that the little things are bigger than they seem, that an insignificant detail or a sincere kiss is never out of place.

It has been necessary for loneliness to overwhelm us, being accompanied, to understand that we are not solitary islands but an archipelago and that we need to learn to tolerate and also love each other in the perfect way for each one of us and not in the way we want..

Loneliness has been invited by the pandemic of a virus that has a crown and that gloats over the arrogance of humans to believe itself to be God and to be able to manipulate everything, even sin.

As in Sodom and Gomorrah isolation has broken the bonds of vice and impurity, it has made the agnostic and the believer rethink, teaching them that extremes touch but also produce unhealthy irreverence.

We will come out of this trial beaten, sore, crestfallen, repentant, hoping that change will not be swallowed up by oblivion.

We will never be the same even if we hide it, there will be those who let their demons loose, who already have the way plowed to swallow them up and also those who in a gesture of courage bury them.

The same is true of those who, by making a mea culpa, straighten out the course and understand that brotherhood is not just a publicity slogan or a way of gaining followers, but the true course set by God for eternity.

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