April 26th, 2021: Back to The Future

 


These are conversations that a frog has with himself as he ponders on how the year has gone.


Conversation 1:

"Things are certainly more simple in some ways. There is not much to do and nowhere to go still. We have been traveling far, haven't we?" - This is the attempt to be content in the midst of discontentment.


Conversation 2:

"Things are more complicated in other ways. We have to plan for everything. We cannot decide to do things in the last minutes anymore." - This is the try to regain life perspective while hating it.


Conversation 3:

"What are we looking at? I am not sure that I see anything. Staring at the same thing for a long time takes away our appreciation for what we see." - This is an acknowledgment that we are struggling in dealing with boredom.


Conversation 4:

"Look! We are growing, just in the wrong dimension, that is. We will not be able to jump anymore. A rolling fog? That is what we, Asian folks, do with a wok." - This is a solemn realization that there are liabilities in dealing with this pandemic for all of us.


So it has been a year of many things and nothing at the same time. It has been a year of many paradoxes and many self-contradictions. Losing our faith in one another while dealing with this challenging time is another casualty of this pandemic. Yet, nothing is new as we watch human beings continue the path to absolute destruction.


Galatians 5: 261

"Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."


Jeremiah 29: 11

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

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