Second chances: In the midst of the virus

Time is moving fast and slow. The days feel long, sometimes dragging, but the week curiously goes by very fast, faster than when we were living in what we now call the normal life. It's about a month now, here on the western coast of North America we are quarantined to prevent the rapid spread of Coronavirus. It's over a month of isolation time, destress, panic, fighting for life and countless tragic losses. It's already months of fighting the virus in Asia, with just the first signs of promising relief in the past days, that give us all keep the eyes on the world news, some much-anticipated hope.
It seems like we are just in the midst of the process here in the US, of as experts say, trying to flatten the curve of the spread, of helping the health system not to have to deal with a major crisis and doing our best to save our lives by maintaining social distancing. This is an unprecedented, dangerous and strange chapter of our generational existence.
Every day in the past four weeks, I, like I imagine many of you, have been flooded by a multitude of emotions, fears, concerns, wonderings, and other internal processes. I've been touched and moved by endless humans that are at the forefront of this battle, working, serving and risking their own health. I've felt deep gratitude, appreciation, courage, and faith for and by many people and the human responses experienced during this crisis. I'm living the creativity and humor, one of the best medicines out there. I've also noticed in times of existential crisis people bring out their best or their worst, or just unknown and never seen before parts of themselves, myself included. In this twilight zone of time moving fast and slow and time being frozen, in the ocean of emotions, global news, stories, confusion, uncertainty, and transformation, I go back at thinking about second chances. Coping with this crisis, the panacea for my fears has been expanding my view beyond my human, existential worries and trying to fly a little higher than my earthy plane and get a glimpse of that astronaut view where the picture has a different angle or at best has no angles at all.
Every time I'm capable of getting a glimpse of the bigger view of this pandemic crisis, I come back stronger and recharged with trust and optimism that this is just another challenging master class on planet Earth and we are about to learn some big, big lessons this time around.
To me, on a grander scale, this crisis is like the idea of second chances. Have we learned anything from the past, are we leaning anything valuable now, and what do we want life to be? These challenging times are the largest opportunities I've experienced in my lifetime to reflect, reboot to balance and make many things right as a human race.
Now, most of us are in the midst of these stormy times. The stronger the storm gets, the more pressing the need is to find balance in the eye of it. This is a second chance and this an opportunity for choices. My power is to make the right choices and is in my power to clear the fog and figure out what are the right choices for me. What does your gut say are the right choices for you and the world you want to live in?
As I journey along these stormy times, I'll share my visions of what feels like the right choices for me. Everything is work in process, shifting and molding. Everything is in the making. I know we all need to stay strong and trust our guts. Today, that's my wish for us.
To be continued...