No Back to Normal

You can hear both frustration and desperation in the voices that call for “things to go back to normal”.
At first, I nodded understandingly because I felt the fear and uncertainty in the words. Though I wasn’t willing to empathize, I was human enough to be sympathetic. Then the cries grew louder and more insistent, “we hope that things go back to normal.”

Sympathy went through the window.

Why should things go back to normal when we have been assiduously destroying the planet like a god-given right?

Why should things go back to normal when we take to hating our brothers and sisters for no other reason than the belief that we are better?

Why should things go back to normal when we have been consuming more than we need just because it is there and available?

Why should things go back to normal when for us normal was being miserable and unhappy, stress-out, and unfulfilled?

Why should things go back to normal when we have been living lives below our divine potential?

So please, let things not go back to normal.

Let us change for the better.
Let us grow.
Let us learn to love again
Let us learn to genuinely laugh again
Let us care for the only home we will ever have, whether or civilization is developed on Mars.
Let us connect more with our Inner Being through prayer and mediation

Let us be what we came here to be.