I finally realized this morning what's bugging me so much about the reaction to this corona virus panic. So many in the media and on social media are acting like this is the end of the world and people are suffering and this is as bad as World War II and the Great Depression. And I hate to break it to them but they don't associate about suffering.
I don't either. When I was growing up we didn't reach a point where there was no food on our table. They did that in World War II. They did that in the Great Depression.
The people that are having to stay home actually you to communicate with the rest of the world directly for as much as they want. They can band together and watch parties on social media. They can laugh and play video games killing digital people. In World War II and in the Great Depression they were isolated. They would write a letter and put it in their mailbox hoping that it wasn't stolen and hoping that the mail man would take it and it would get to its destination.
And that was for the people that could write and read.
So it chirps me to see all these people saying that their suffering. When all that they're actually going through is a little bit of inconvenience.
There is the keyword: inconvenience.
I can't get what I want when I want how I want and so my life is ended in time suffering more than they ever did in history and this is the end of the world.
House! How shallow!
I think that I will add to my prayers and meditations that people never truly know what suffering is.
