This is How We Will All Serve Each Other

Home sweet home

Life couldn’t be better for us tucked into our comfortable home on the Canadian prairies. Now, it is all about waiting at distance for the healing of the world to begin. We slept last night for a full nine hours. While having coffee in our living room while looking out the large picture window, I commented that we had been living on adrenaline for almost three weeks. It took both of us living on high alert in Ecuador to ensure that we were able to leave that country before it went on complete shutdown. Yesterday morning, the last Canadian repatriation flight left Ecuador with some of our friends lucky enough to find land transport to Quito where all of the repatriation flights were accessed. The whole exercise taught both of us that we need community – family, friends, neighbours, national governments, and countless unnamed service people.

I got to go out onto my back deck. It was cold -10 Celsius, with a brisk breeze to make it feel even colder. I didn’t stay out long, not because of the cold, but because I knew that I should stay inside. I wan’t breaking any rules on the back deck. But if anyone saw me on the back deck, regardless of being nude or clothed, it might cause stress. After all, I just returned from out-of-country. However, that brief moment was needed to tell me that I was truly at “home.”

Our modern world is all about personal freedoms and rights. What so many of us fail to realise, is the fact that we can only have these freedoms and rights because of the collective working together to protect these freedoms. In times of crisis, such as we are experiencing world-wide at the present, the collective is the whole human race. Borders between  countries, such as between Canada and the United States of America, are just concepts that have no meaning when confronted by a threat such as Covid19. The real threats aren’t the “other.” The real threat begins with the “self.”  We become the enemy when we defy logic, common sense, and regulations that are being imposed to help us help ourselves.

These words from our Prime Minister here in Canada, tell it like it is. “So be smart about what you do, about the choices that you make, that is how you will serve your country and how we will all serve each other … It’s in our hands, it is in your hands.” Governments can only do so much. If we don’t do our part with self-distancing, then this will be the funeral pyre of our modern world. Yes, there will be those that will emerge from the ashes like the phoenix bird.  However, if you and I are to arrive on the other side of this pandemic, we will need to protect ourselves and all those around us via physical social isolation and distancing.

The virus doesn’t spread through the Internet. Keep connected using social media. Virtual presence is better than no presence. On the plus side, no one cares whether you are clothed or not. Therein lies a new freedom. That said, be careful when online. There are too many voices of despair, too many who see the crisis as an opportunity to profit from the fears and miseries of others. If you hear messages of hate, block. If you hear voices that attack others based on gender, race, colour, religion, or for any reason at all, block. This is not the time to disrespect. It is the time to offer messages of hope for individuals and humanity as a whole.

With this now said, I want to leave you with these words of another contemporary hero in Canada, Rick Mercer who has gained fame for his “Rants” which have had the purpose of keeping our politics and our country real.

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5 Responses to This is How We Will All Serve Each Other

  1. Alexis says:

    I’ve been following you for a few weeks now, and all of your posts are so well written. I am a very introverted person in nature, so I have looked forward to the isolation. However, I never realized just how hard it is to be isolated to your home with no ability to go anywhere except for essential travel for health and welfare. Regardless of ones personality, it is essential to maintain our relationships during this time. We don’t want to be forgotten or slowly drift away into irrelevance. Utilizing our technology to stay connected is essential to getting through this hard time. Stay safe and healthy my North American neighbor.

    • skyclad says:

      Thank you, Alexis. I appreciate your kind words. As you may have guessed, I am an introvert as well. Stay safe and well.

  2. Robert Payne says:

    So glad you two are safely home. There is now a new reality that will not go away Enjoy your sanctuary.

    • skyclad says:

      Thank you for thoughts. We will enjoy our sanctuary on the prairies. I hope the two of you stay safe and well.

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