Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe I’m not. But I’ve seen good things come of this unprecedented time. I also know it’s been hard and unexpected.
Through my personal, professional, counseling, mediation, and other multiple encouraging efforts… through witnessing those who’ve had birthdays, graduations, celebrations, and have intentionally commented how this time has been like no other… so different… acknowledging the inability to gather and to touch… to touch, I say again. Still people have said what they most wanted to say… through drive by’s, acknowledgements…. we’ve been more deliberate in our wishes and words.
Hence, the Intramuralist continues to ask questions… remembering that the question mark is the only punctuation piece that invites a response…
… willingly… wanting… expectantly…
And so in my desire to continue to handle the quarantine in a wise way, recognizing each of us — no matter our age or stage — has an opportunity to grow, I ask 10 simple questions…
… humbly … always…
1. Is it ok for us to have different levels of outrage in response to all this corona crud?
2. Are any of us in a position in which we can tell everyone else how they need to respond?
3. Does it make sense that there’s a difference in how people in different parts of the county respond? In other words, should we expect the same in jam-packed New York City compared to Big Sky, blue Montana?
4. What good have you seen during this time? Is there anything that’s still amazing?
5. Who are you putting your trust in? … a person, government, something better and more?
6. What will actually be better as a result of this? Can you see anything better and more?
7. If the great big God of the universe has allowed this crazy time to exist, believing he’s big enough and so much more powerful and able to stop all now if he wants to, what might he want each of us to learn and glean from this situation? What is that? Is there something?
Then I must also ask…
8. Where have I judged another person, actually finding fault in them, because their approach and their emotion and reaction to this is different than my approach and my emotion?
9. Was my judgment wise? … or was I thinking I’m capable of superseding the role of the great big God of the universe?
No man is perfect. No one is right in all they think and believe. Am I humble enough to acknowledge such?
And one more Q…
10. In ESPN’s recent, totally awesome “Last Dance” documentary, detailing the end of Michael Jordan’s NBA career, they say that Michael never allowed what he couldn’t control to get inside his head. In this crazy time, that seems totally applicable— do I recognize that?
Where do I let things inside my head that I can’t control?
Where do I lash out inappropriately on social media?
And where do I then treat others wrongly because they aren’t responding as I am?
Hmmm…
I’m thinking I’m maybe not so crazy…
… even though each of us have so much more to learn…
Respectfully…
AR