The Only Way We Can Beat The Pandemic. A Story of Non-Judgement.
By: Christian Moeller
Tags: Joy, Mindfulness, Happiness, Understanding, Hope

You already know everything I’m about to tell you, in one way or another. You just may have forgotten bits and pieces. And I’m just here to remind you of what you may have forgotten.

Blue, Hopeful, and Happy Sky. Credit of author (Christian Moeller)

Imagine two distinct futures after the pandemic’s physical manifestation on Earth has been eradicated:

The First future for the Earth: You wake up. The sun shines brightly. You head to work. You hear multiple languages being spoken. This is normal for you now. You like the diversity. You see a person — of a different color than you. Except that, rather than looking at their skin color, you are looking at the color of their clothes. This person is your friend. You comment on how you love their attire for the day. Your friend knows that you’ve had a recent heartbreak, and gives you a knowing look of understanding; a warmth warmer than any hot winter coffee could ever give you.

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The Second future for the Earth: You wake up to sirens blaring. You put on your local militia’s uniform. You strap on your rifle. You head outside. You hate the world. You hate everything. The slightest thing bothers you. You aim to kill. You blame. You judge. You’d fight any member of your militia, except for the fact that there are thousands of other militias competing with you, killing your local militia members. Wistfully, you remember the old office you worked at. You remember how friendly everyone was. You realize that you could have chosen to encourage your neighbors, your colleagues; to inspire your friends. Rather, one incident of hate directed toward you turned you into a monster. And now, you are the leader of this militia — killing, killing, and killing again, for reasons long forgotten. Something about a thing called Corona, which you remember to have been a beer that was popular with your friends

The way to beat the pandemic — for all eternity — doesn’t lie in vaccines, antibiotics, nor in anything a single human being or corporation can dose out to billions of people. Even after the pandemic is long gone, after the living amongst us have all built up physical immunity in one way or another, the after-effects are to linger on for decades, generations, or even centuries.

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The only way to beat the pandemic is to choose to end the cycle of hate, revenge, and angst which has been going on from the beginning of human time, passed down through generations, and culminated in the appearance and manifestation of every incidence of intolerance, violent discrimination, and intentional acts of pain-giving which you have witnessed.

On a deep level, I’m sure you know this is true as well as I do. Look at the United States. Despite a cold winter and millions of sick people, more people participated in the democratic process than ever before. Neither the Ancient Romans nor the Ancient Greeks were able to build a functioning democracy — where people vote to place officials into seats of temporary power.

These elected officials are then trusted to serve in the interest of the greater good, to remember that each and every human being, whether smart or dumb, tall or short, fat or skinny, black or white or any color in between, is equal under the eyes of the law.

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All of us — and by all of us, I mean YOU. All of us have a choice to make, and we must make this choice — this decision — every day of our lives until it begins to become ingrained into the collective psyche of first the nation, then the world. You — meaning WE — must decide, right now, that we will treat every single member of the human species as a being who is equally important as us, and deserves to be treated with the utmost love, understanding, and respect.

I may have grown into an adult in California, highly regarded to be a source of “New-age woo woo” and the sort — yet I received my adult education in the game of life throughout multiple global locations and in meetings with people from more countries than I could ever remember.

The entire world — from the U.S.A to the European Union, to Russia and China, Mongolia and Uzbekistan, Korea, Japan, Egypt, Morocco, Taiwan; all of these countries, home to people just like us on the inside — have only relatively recently opened their borders to the world. Global communications, instant e-mail, inter-continental teams, multinational corporations, international flights available at a price affordable for most people who have the will and the patience to save money — and now, finally, a single Global Economy where each nation utilizes its innate talent advantages in order to create mutually beneficial trade agreements with other nations, making the entire world wealthier than ever.

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The pandemic has taught us a lot. It has taught us to hate. It has taught us to love. It has taught us that nothing — absolutely nothing — is certain, and that we must be OK with that. Let us all take the time out of our day to remove one hateful thought/impulse, and add in one loving thought and/or behavior. We, as individuals, yet through collective action, and collective action ONLY, can end the pandemic once and for all by ending the cycle of hate and starting towards the path of understanding, tolerance, and reconciliation.