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What is the Coronavirus Telling You?
“Perhaps the universe is saying to us: ‘I want you to go to your room, and think about what you have done!’”
My friend shared this thought with me after taking one of the last flights from the USA to Canada before the border closed. She wanted to be with her aged parents who live in a small town near Toronto. Aware of their vulnerability to the virus, she checked herself into a motel near her parents’ home and has spent the past two weeks in isolation before moving in with them.
“I’ve had a lot of time to think about the epidemic,” she told me on FaceTime. “For me, the fact it came from animal-to-human transmission in a Chinese “wet” market tells me something. This is the price we are paying for eating animals. I’m going 100% vegetarian.”
Another friend, David, told me from his Zoom chat room how his experience of the epidemic’s lockdown “reminds me of the last weeks before my mother’s death. We all stopped worrying about everyday life. It all seemed to drop away. We focused only on what was important. What really mattered. I won’t say the virus has been a good thing. Of course not. But there’s an opportunity here for us to get real clear about what is important in our lives, and let go of the rest.”
My friend Kirby, also on the Zoom chat with David, has seen his small business disappear overnight (he…
