@PC.NickRowan

4 years ago

I've been thinking about this lately. How 1st world modern life and medicine has in a lot of ways made us utterly naive and sheltered from death. With the lack of concern toward ones of mortality, as well as the mortality of loved ones, infant mortality rate at an all time low, and the capacity to be able to put yourself in harm's way, whether it be putting yourself in a dangerous situation potentially resulting in physical harm, or substance abuse, you can always rely on modern medicine and technology to help you recover. We all assume that we'll live beyond 80, but what if we didn't? What if the concept that we could die tomorrow was dragged from the depths and pinned to our concious mind? Perhaps then would we be more conscious of our time? Would be derive more motivation to utilize our time to do more? Would we treat everyday as if it were our last? Would we decide to put something important off for another day, if we knew there might not be another day? Would we start to look after and maintain our bodies and minds better, engage more in life, perhaps even return to the likes of family values? Something very potentially old and primitive about these concepts I find. When reading these reports about Covid since January, I had an idea of what was going to happen, I was prepared for when it came at our doorstep, but I noticed something different, something clicked in my brain, and my priorities instantly rearranged and I began to truly appreciate how stupid and simplistic first world problems are, and how they aren't even real problems, they're just spoiled complaints and potentially boredom.

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