Unprecedented times

WOW! If someone would have showed me a picture of 2020 last year I would have freaked out!
Masks, empty streets, coffins... how, when, what happened?! Any good things to see, please?

We are currently living in a pandemic! I mean, many have gone through wars and unfortunately are going through horrible situations around the world right now, but something that is affecting the whole world at the same time, it is unprecedented.

People need to keep distance from each other, we are scared if people walk or pass by too close to us, we think twice before touching an elevators' button.. All things we did daily without realising that it would be ever relevant someday. Have you ever thought as much as pushing an elevator button before?

Have you thought about it? What? Pushing a button, bumping into someone "oh, sorry!", something drops on the floor and you pick it up "hey sir, you dropped this".. You hold the door for someone else to come in, you bring coffee to your colleagues...

It's unprecedented! Such simple gestures and mundane things out of life becoming your focus, or even an obsession for some. I wonder how are we adapting to this... We change, we adapt, we move forward, that's what we should always do, right? But.. how long would it take anyways? How long do we need to reset. I would like to see a picture of 2021! I hope we will have something nice to see, until then.. let's focus on the good things it has brought us so far. Still, it's, yes... never seen before, never imagined, never expected, seriously, unprecedented!

Stuck in a moment..

Have you ever been in a place or situation in which you felt powerless or incapable of changing it?
How frustrating was it? For how long did you have to go on.. What did you do? What was your reaction?
It's funny to think of ourselves at such moment when we feel stuck...

I was recently in the train station in Rotterdam central station and because of the storm alert, the trains were incredibly delayed. We had to wait for long before the train arrived and there were many people waiting. And when the train opened the doors, it was like this wave of people trying to get in before anybody else, pushing and squeezing each other fearing they not being able to get in as well. It's like life in a jungle, fighting for some basic human need...

Well, when we were all finally all inside the train, I noticed that people were very restless and in a bad mood. For a moment, someone started laughing because of the situation, another woman was taking pictures, others looking at each other faces finding a comic situation.

At the moment you are angry and frustrated, but some people could find it amusing. What else can we do there? We can't move, we can't do what we want to do, we can't change the fact we will not go home at the exact planned time.

Somehow there was a change there... At that moment when your natural reaction would be to be angry and mad and frustrated and start complaining, we could change that. We can laugh, and accept the fact we can't get what we want at the moment we want to get it. At that moment there was a change... Isn't that interesting to think about? We could change our perspective and the way nature will lead us, we can change the way we see things...

If the train is delayed, if you are in a traffic jam, it started raining the moment you stepped out of the bus.. Think not about the things you can't get or can't influence, think about the things you can change... Change that moment... ;-)