Why Has the World Already “Forgotten” the Corona Pandemic?
How Our Fast-Paced World Erases Meaningful Events
It’s been 2 years since COVID-19 upended our world. Yet with all the other stuff that was and is still going on on this planet, the pandemic just seemed like a bad dream from long ago..
Have we collectively forgotten so soon?
Of course, many still mourn losses that can’t be forgotten.
The pandemic’s sheer global impact made it feel like an era-defining epoch. Yet focus rapidly shifted. We dive into the next news cycle, hurry onto the next trend.
Rapid reinvention became the priority. Never looking back, only moving onward, faster. But without closure, wounds persist under the surface.
This reflex to hurtle into the future follows larger patterns. We dissolve the past to survive. But this mentality risks erasing hard-earned wisdom.
We’re told to “move on” from hardships, keep heads down, eyes forward.
But refusing reflection creates cultural amnesia.
Lessons learned lose relevance unless integrated.
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Many feel time itself accelerating , but also kind of slowing down — days blurring into weeks blurring into years. The subjective sense of time dissolving. Perhaps this compression hinders deep processing.
Past crises shaped generations indelibly. But modern society’s pace diffsuses focus. Media bombards us relentlessly. Perspective gets fractured into shards.
With increasingly fleeting attention spans, even monumental events fade into footnotes. But the blinking, buzzing confusion belies quiet undercurrents of change emerging beneath the surface.
A spiritual awakening stirs as people recognize society’s precarious foundations. Questioning the treadmill of productivity and consumption.
Exploring what truly matters.
The steel frame often creaks loudest before real transformation. Upheaval shakes us from slumber. Out of ruins, new forms arise.
But first, we must sift through the rubble of assumptions. Rebuild with more compassion on foundations of what lasted — community, care.
Heighten the human spirit, not just economies.
Rather than hurry on unaffected, we can walk slowly through the pandemic’s lingering echoes.
Process collective trauma to integrate wiser futures.
Although adversity stretched us, it revealed light within people. And there is hope in remembering, before forgetting.
The present moment waits patiently for us to inhabit it fully. Herein lies peace and closure. What do you think? Can we move on without leaving the past behind?
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