Life in the Age of COVID
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My darling, Soleia -
You were just turning 2...
I don't want to seem naive. I honestly just don't think that this is par for the course. I think that there is something more to it.
I think this is what an anxious world looks like.
The human animal, like everything else, is governed by vectors. We are getting stronger or we are getting weaker. We are getting richer or getting poorer.
COVID-19 is like water poured on a fireplace. The wood will not burn properly for some time. But in the meanwhile, as the wood dries, does the wood remain warm? No. It only grows cooler and cooler with each passing day.
With each passing day that one wakes and cannot function in those sometime pleasant, sometimes infuriating but mostly expected rhythms, the mind is filled with anxiety. Nerves fray. Thresholds to action change. Judgment becomes askew.
The will to do any of the things listed above is always there - the will to destruction inside all of us. But mostly that will to destruction is kept in check by rules, by routine, by monotony of repetition. But perhaps most of all it is kept in check by the comforting notion that tomorrow everything will be as predictable as it is today.
When tomorrow becomes uncertain, rationality and moderation becomes uncertain as well. This is life in the Age of COVID. Anxiety as omnipresent as the air we breathe.
- Dad
posted by Kamil at
June 01, 2020
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