About bees and silence

In times of crisis is important to bring back to our memories what can bring us hope. I’ve seen a small bee doing its job and making its part while walking with my family on last Sunday afternoon. 

The weather was nice, the sun was shining and I felt it warming my face. As a very observatory person that I am, I could already see some flowers blossoming on the trees and at the garden of our house. And the memory of how beautiful spring is came to me right away. And it made me happy. 

Let’s not forget in times of crisis that the hard times will pass. Let’s not be stuck in the problem and forget to look ahead with hope, optimism and faith (of course doing our part. Otherwise our faith and hope would be dead and our optimism a voiceless sound). 

Let’s take our time to be quiet and in silence at home, and alone for a while. It helps us a lot to put things back in place. So let’s take the time to put things back in place. 

What that bee was doing was to fly from flower to flower, it was only keeping up with its mission on earth. Pollination. And you? Are you exercising your life purpose even when the world stops? Purpose isn’t a geographical condition. It doesn’t depend from where you are to be exercised. 

I’m seeing my life on this 2 weeks “forced Hollidays” I am having from a very similar perspective. It doesn’t matter that a world outside have stopped. There’s so much work to do inside of me. There’s so many decisions for a better future for me to take that requires thinking and silence. There are so many things that me, as a human being that lives in a common society need to stop doing. There are so many professional decisions I have to take now, in order to get up from this unexpected small disaster that the next weeks are gonna cause to all of us. 

In times of crisis is important to think clearly. To be focused. To decide how to proceed, to plan ourselves and our lives as realistic as possible and to get ready for when the world gets back on its feet. Because surely it will! We’ve survived wars and nuclear bombs. Corona will also leave us alone eventually. 

I’m having the time of my life now that I have some free time. Really! I’m sleeping what I haven’t done for the last 10 years, I’m doing whatever I’m feeling like, I’m eating and talking a lot to people, watching tv and playing on my phone almost for the entire day. Singing karaoke until my voice is over. FaceTiming friends. 

But I’m also taking couple hours of my day to get informed about what’s going on in the planet. And how I can take my part. To plan strategic business actions to minimize the damage to my business that the whole situation have caused. Taking my time to read a book, to clean up and organize my flat, my house, Wunder. I’m taking a time to look to myself (in silence), and ask how am I feeling about it all. And how can I play my part on all of that. In times of “Hollidays”, let’s not forget that we’re not on Hollidays. 

Some of us are gonna get to the end of this quarantine renewed and ready for what’s yet to come. Ready to live 2020 after one of the  greatest lesson we’ve been submitted to learn so far. And of course, some of us will come to the end of this quarantine as empty, senseless and stupid than never. Cause if the actual global situation isn’t enough to rise awareness from their parts, nothing really will! 

Don’t be part of the second group! Cause you might have then survived COVID-19. But stupidity is a disease just as mortal as any vírus. And the biggest problem is that, there’s no quarantine for that. Sadly.