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The World Will Be Shaped by What We Take Away From These Times
5 messages to take away in the hope of a better world
I can’t wait for this pandemic to be over. Of course, it is partly because social isolation is tough, it is tiring to cook for myself and the kids all the time, it is lonely not to see my friends, and it is very unsettling and uncertain if I allow myself to think about the economic consequences.
But if I set aside all the negative that inevitably comes with it, there is something great to look forward, and I can’t wait to see how the new world will be.
You must have heard or even said yourself that the world is never going to be the same after this is over. It sounds daunting — because we are used to this world. We might not love every part of it, but at least, we know it and familiar is good, while change is bad — in most people’s minds.
But there is an aspect to the forthcoming change that is more of a promise than a threat.
The world won’t be the same, and we won’t be the same either. We are changing with the circumstances because this is what we are good at — humans have evolved into our present versions by continuously adapting. We have survived the ice age, we survived wars, famine and plague — and they changed us.
