While I’ve been busy flicking around and trying to help spread the word of positivity to all the nations, and be publicly available from within a lockdown situation, there definitely has been some substantial reflection going on in my universe. Very deep thought provoking reflections (lol).
After realising that this global pandemic has essentially put the breaks on almost everything in life, we’re now confined to the limitations of our own kitchen tables being used as a make-shift office and working from the comfort of your own home with everyone else making it increasingly difficult to focus, especially if you have kids fighting or yelling in the background…
Further, I’ve also realised that this has been an opportunity really. Where we have usually limited space to think things through, we’re running out the door falling to the pressures of what we call limited time in 24 hours a day, making sure we’re leaving extra early in the mornings to meet traffic deadlines and bust our a$$es off to make a living that usually goes to the cost of rent, gas and bills all to do it again the next day, and the next day after that, and after that, and after that.
But what’s happened here now with COVID-19 entering into the world has halted so many different things in life – its almost unfathomable. In only hours New Zealand was pretty much shunted into lockdown with little time to prepare, everyone anxiously running around with their heads cut off and schools and businesses being forced to close.
Within hours our economic status crumbled so deeply that the stock markets took a huge hit, some of the most essential services like airports came to a grinding halt and these businesses are loosing not millions, but billions of dollars. Jobs have been lost, people scared to figure out how they’re paying their bills from now on and the immense psychological pressures are really pulling people a part from the tip of their heads to the souls of their feet. Utter Chaos!
Whilst I understand the magnitude of this move locking people down to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, I also am in deep thought about the rest of the world and what this means. Interestingly enough, I’m actually really calm about it.
Being a person known to the world as a ‘celebrity’ and a businessman with many business commitments and organisations I’m in charge of, I too have gone through in less than twelve hours, the loss of nine clients as a business consultant. That’s substantial revenue loss right there. But again, I’m actually really calm about it.
I envisioned that with everything going on around the pandemic, I’m immediately secured somehow on the amount of ‘clutter’ in life we’ve perhaps falsely involved ourselves in that really doesn’t matter, is now okay to be left where it is. In the past. Almost like a soulful restart on humanity. Almost designed by the co-creator to remind us whats important.
What I’ve pondered over the past week is the ideas around how much we’ve got things so wrong. What’s important now is not what’s really authentically important. To me, it’s almost like we’ve lost touch with the real soulful, authenticated truth of who we are and what we’re here to do. A demonstration of this is the fact we’re more worried about where we will get our starbucks from or the fact that McDonalds isn’t open to cater to our fast-food takeout fix, through to how superficially import it is to have the latest iPhone or iPad.
By recognising that humanity has been restarted, we’ve had to relearn so many things. How to survive and not count of the likes of Uber eats. How to connect with each other using other methods than being able to meet face to face. The unimportance of getting takeout food to actually cooking your own healthy homemade meals… Everything has gone back to basics and its amazing! Its awakening! Its truly a given gift to wake up and appreciate. And somehow I think this is why I’m calm and okay about it.
On Friday evening I received a text message from my mother who said, “I’ve been thinking. Never in my wildest dreams would I believe this kind of thing would land on our doorstep – and it has. If anything happens to us, we’re okay with cremation…”. This was almost a ‘goodbye’ text to say that they’re stating their last wishes. But I got it. I understood. My mum is only 60 years young, but she was ensuring that I, as her son was prepared for whatever the occasion and given the difficulty around deceased being a heated topic matter of consideration of this virus, it made sense – although I did ignore it and say “yeah cool. Whatever…”.
This was another reality for me that I had to digest and understand as my Universe is already full of circulating thoughts and impressions. But yet again here I am wondering about the importance of life. This blessing I’ve been given. How do I proceed? How do I think? What is my next step and move? Whats really important right now in this very moment?
I came across this ‘paradox’ poem on Facebook. Author unknown (But if you read this and want me to acknowledge your writings, please flick me an email as I would be happy to…) but as I read it I knew that everything over the last week thats been circulating around in my thoughts and mind has been greatly summed up in this small, but thought provoking, and life changing poem.
I call it: “Reset Button for Humanity…”
TRAFFIC is gone, LONG QUEUES are gone.
GAS is affordable, BILLS extended.
KIDS are at home with their FAMILIES, PARENTS are home taking care of their CHILDREN.
FAST FOOD replaced by HOME COOKED MEALS, hectic SCHEDULES replaced by NAPS.
The AIR seems CLEANER, the WORLD QUIETER.
PEOPLE are conscious about HYGIENE and HEALTH again.
WE finally listen to authorities and head home when they say so.
MONEY doesn’t seem to make the WORLD GO ROUND anymore.
And WE now have TIME, finally, to STOP and SMELL the ROSES.
It seems like this COVID-19 is a RESET BUTTON for HUMANITY!!!
What does this tell your little voice in side of you? What questions does this provoke in you?
I know this much. That whatever I do from now on will have a recipe. To ensure that everything I do moving forward is for the benefit of serving a greater cause and purpose higher than myself.
If humanity is meant to have been reset, then I know for a fact I will make sure moving forward I’m more conscious, awake, listening and considerate more than ever.