To Live Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure

Things are not great. This has all the appearances of a great adventure.

The world is facing a deadly threat. Everyone’s lives has changed in a matter of weeks. Nobody knows what to do. There are enormous stakes.

The future is uncertain. The fate of our families, communities, nations, world hang in the balance. There’s great opportunity for each of us to have an impact on what life is like in a month, in a year, in a decade. Our actions matter.

You have to grow up fast, to overcome obstacles, to change your life. You to focus on what’s important. You pull close to the people you love. You feel a connection with everyone you see. Everyone’s mind is on the same thing.

This is serious, as true adventures always are. People die during adventures. There is loss. There is true misery.

But there is beauty, if you can find it, in the unexpectedness. In the new ways of living we have to adopt. In the feeling of solidarity with everyone else on the planet who is dealing with this in one way or another.

I never used to understand when people valorized war as a great vehicle for heroism and purpose and unity. But I’m starting to.