And it comes to another end of a weekend. Surely time flies so quick this year and we are now already heading towards the mid of February. The pandemic started from last year and now it is still haunting our everyday life, it’s impact is profound and much much bigger than SARS in 2013, we may even not back to normal days like before in five to seven years.
I once had a conversation with a friend and she was quite pessimistic about what we are experiencing nowadays. She even felt that we are “the last generation on this planet to enjoy a glimpse of human civilization’s peak in history down the road”. I have no comment on that though, I do not really hold very optimistic view on what we are undergoing at this moment. There are too many crazy things happening right now, and we are yet able to control but only carrying out civilians’ life with extra cautions and worries.
I was reading a magazine yesterday on the train, and it was a well written opinion about our solitude in contemporary life:
Now the end I think is always the same: how to live in leisure at our ease. But people do not always seek the way properly. Often they think they have left their occupations behind when they merely changed them. There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running a whole country.
Whenever our soul finds something to do she is there in her entirely: domestic tasks may be less important but they are no less importunate. Anyway, by ridding ourselves of Court and marketplace we do not rid ourselves of the principal torments of our life:
Ambitions, covetousness, irresolution, fear and desires do not abandon us just because we change our landscape.
I think human beings are destined to be lonely, and it’s our best, ultimate state of being lonely when are getting more acknowledged and respected towards the end of our life. It is much more energy consuming to meet our social demand that’s outside of what we really need to stay as a socialized species, put it in another word, we may not really need that much social life as it appears to be. Being lonely but not feeling loneliness should be a perfect balanced psychological state.
