COVID-19 Times
There is a social demand in this crisis, but also a spiritual demand. The needs are relational. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility. “We are all a mix of so many things: equally happy and sad, strong and fragile, confident and scared… the soonest we accept this reality, the soonest we will be able to navigate through life more smoothly.” We often filter ourselves socially, follow trends and offer a version of ourselves we think others will accept more, writes speaker Ricardo Karam. The times we are going through are like nothing anyone of us has ever lived before. And that world we are going to step back into, once this pandemic gives ground, is as much of a mystery today as it was a year ago when we were watching videos of hospitals being built at record speed in China, not knowing how this same threat would be turning the entire world upside down a few weeks later. Today we live in a world where e...