I’m getting up there in age, well into the high-risk group for the corona virus and that weighs heavily on my mind. But this isn’t about that. Not really. This is more about thought.
Lately, more often than before I’ve been having thoughts about how events and things have changed my life. I’ve been wondering what I would have been if this or that had happened or if I hadn’t done this or that. It’s not so much in the form of regrets although honestly there are some regrets. It’s more in the form of wonderings. I wonder what I would have been if this hadn’t happened and then that had happened because this happened, etc.
Some things happened. Some things I did. Some things happened and then I did some things because those things happened. Maybe I would have done other things.
Who knows?
So I was out for a good walk today. One of the things I’m doing since I’m working from home and home a lot more now is trying to get back into shape. I was a long distance runner for about twenty years, until my hip started to bother me. That ended up in a hip replacement and the hip replacement kind of meant no running, and I got out of shape. Now my other hip is an issue, but not so bad yet, so I’ve been working little by slowly at getting back into shape.
A couple of minutes out on the road walking and I started into some of those what-if thoughts. And I thought to myself, don’t do that. It was a fair thing to say to myself. Some things, sometimes, are just not worth going into, end up not being productive at all.
And that’s the point of this. It’s a simple point: Don’t do that.
It kind of applies across the board. We should not be playing politics at this point in time. Don’t do that. But I spoke about that last time.
So the next don’t do that is second guessing. No one really knows the truth of what is going on with the covid virus. It’s pretty sure China isn’t telling us the truth about their numbers. Other countries don’t measure as we do and don’t know what we know. And in all fairness, vice versa. Altogether we aren’t that great. Our numbers as they flash on the screen do not project a real picture of what is going on. If you listen to the full reports of the people studying this, you get great variables in the projections and vastly different scenarios.
So don’t cheat. Don’t stockpile medical equipment. Don’t sell equipment out from under our first responders to make a bigger profit.
Don’t second guess what our leaders are doing. Those in charge of states, cities and the country are doing the best they can with what they have. We may not agree with everything and we may not like some things, but they have no reason not to be. So don’t sit in the background and take cheap shots, don’t second guess. We’re in uncharted waters here, so make the least negative assumptions.
We are who we are and we know what we know. We all have different points of view and come from different backgrounds. We all wear different shoes.
Don’t do that: don’t be part of the negativity.
Look to the sun.
