ERROR ON THE HEADLINES

Error on the headlines.      

We are all infected, some by virtue of illness others by virtue of circumstance. This is no longer a news we can just read or talk about, it's one we can feel, we all can feel its firm grip. Is it  good news or a badnews? Pardon me for asking that question, I just want us to prevent the temptation of hasty conclusion.

  A sickness that brings us closer to the truth, certain truths that we fear so much. How our fates are linked to one another. Seven billion people on a tiny planet suspended in vastness of space all alone. A tiny planet divided into continents, continents divided into countries and it goes on and on.... Divided not by seas, oceans or land, but by believes, language, culture, races, creeds, understanding. I won't advertise my ignorance, it is obvious we have become; Bricklayers, clergies, ceos, plumbers, head of states, doctors, lawyers, prostitutes, cabdrivers, robbers, parents, students, children,siblings e.t.c. Before all this came to be, we became human (at birth) the joy of fellow human. Nature's production for reproduction, do human now create for the destruction of fellow human? How fast did we forget that we are human? "We strive to become creators forgetting we were created".

    Mother earth needs healing even before the pandemic, healing beyond the provisions of the government, healing beyond the provisions of the church, healing within the provision of the self the individual human. Fear itself fears many general ideologies. This is a period of individual rehabilitation, a time to vindicate our lost individual honour. We are many times generally right but individually wrong. This pandemic might be for us to stop and see. To look back at our past in order to see the future. To understand before we change. To let go before we accumulate more. For this life is nothing except for  what we have lived. 

The pandemic has brought caution upon us. Caution shouldn't be because of the pandemic, it should be because it is good to be cautious. Our urge to fly has blinded us to the way we ply. We can slow down now to see a lot. This period, the mirror would be more medicinal, not for beauty but for decorum. So we can see the many times we profit from the misfortune of others, so many religion, so many creeds, but all this sad world needs is kindness. The greatest God we need now is our humanity, that bonding characteristic that we must one day fade. It shouldn't take the greatest unknown (death) for us to know we are same, we are all human first before any other obligation. Before you were obliged with any headline in your life now, you were privileged to become human first, every other things draws value from humanity. Any other heading, title or headline in your life has no value without humanity. How then can we forget the value of our source of value?

Without humanity life becomes an occurance, without humanity death becomes extinction. Who are you now? Are you human? Or is there error on your headline? . Immediate failure is always the result of any error in a headline. The goodnews will always remain that we can't stop being human as long as we are living. Like our shadows,we can't elude it, it is always there. Memories bring back memory, if we can only remember our humanity only then can we see how far we have treaded from being human.This pandemic is not just a virus but an event in history, making a space not for pace but for peace. How bad will it be if we succeed in learn nothing from it?  learn new ways of being,  Live to learn, learn to live.

An anthropocentric movement, stay home stay safe .....Mandatum novum do vobis