“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
This is literally what the world feels like right now.
The whole world lit up by one tiny almost invisible organism, which may or may not kill but with no way out except to wait for it to either engulf you or surpass you. The stuff I am going to say here can actually be quite simply said in a single sentence, but somehow, I felt the need to elaborate.
All our lives, humans have considered ourselves the most superior of living beings. All because we pride ourselves of a sixth sense, an ability to think rationally, and intuition. But are we really as high and mighty as we portray ourselves? Are we really rational? Can our minds genuinely comprehend everything God/Nature has put before us?
The virus is doing to us, what we are doing to Mother Earth.
Right now, a microscopic life form is causing a global panic. Something, that under normal circumstances none of us would give a second thought to. It shows us that we are nothing. We are merely another existence in nature, just another cog in the food chain. A cog that can be destroyed by any other creation with the right stimulus. When this is the case, what is all our arrogance about? Who are we beyond? Who cares what our social status is, what job we do, how much we earn or who we know? In the end, we are all the same to that tiny virus. A host body it can survive on and kill if possible.
That virus is doing to us, what we are doing to Mother Earth.
Slowly and rapidly killing her. I know those words are conflicting, but I put it that way on purpose. We are killing the earth in what may seem like a slow process to us owing to our size in relation to the world, but it is fast from earth’s point of view. Think about it.
What are we? Who are we? And what can we do to give back?