Social distancing: a Universal thing

Ruxandra Pana
3 min readMay 29, 2020

If you look at what is happening in the world right now and try to understand it and become aware of it you will find so many stories and ultimately not know what to believe anymore: what the mainstream is dictating upon us is the main narrative of dealing with the worst that humanity has dealt with, what the spiritual people are implying is that we are about to transcend our limitations and break free, what conspirationists, or at least the way we call them, are saying is that we’re dealing with a hoax, and so on and so forth.

Climate changists say that this is an obvious inflated pollution situation which is giving birth to all sorts of health issues, and here I mean both psychological, physical, economical, political etc. health in the expanded meaning of the word.

There must be some truth in all of the above and if you try to discern a single truth, know that there is truth in each interpretation of the situation, but there is also something we haven’t taken into consideration about our situation.

Let’s say that we are going through this because of our choices years after years, choices concerning food, habits, culture, health, economy, environment, and that we are supposed to take in the consqeuences of our actions in the way Earth puts it, less dramatic than the end of the world but not comfortable either. The situation is less than comfortable, so to speak.

But in order to take the right action we must see the full picture of the situation. Now it has come the time to really ask: What if our measures don’t matter at all? What if our interpretations of things are so limited that we haven’t even grasped the limitation that we hold, regardless of having created the situation intentionally? What if creating the situation intentionally doesn’t necessarily mean we hold the right understanding or get the full picture?(even if apparently, by assuming our free will, we make it appear that we do?)

If you mute someone when they speak you get to see their full facial expression more thoroughly and get to feel them more.

What if we muted our interpretations on this crisis?

Would we get it more?

Would we be able to see where we are really headed? Noticeably, in this Universe things are spreading apart.

What if our distancing is the inertial movement in this universe and this crisis symbolizes our propensity to be inertial rather than willful?

We’ve made social distancing something which we have chosen but what if we reversed things a bit and see the situation for what it trully is: we going towards inertial living more and more without being able to cultivate the willpower of coming together anymore?

If Galaxies spread apart, if things evolve towards rapid expansion and this is a good thing because it can leave room for new things to emerge, what will emerge in turn between us?

gravitation can bring galaxies together but also spread them apart

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