Every day really is Earth Day, a day to celebrate this planet that we call home. It’s crazy to think how much we take it for granted, this life we have here on Earth. The whole Covid-19 pandemic has really brought it home how much we take a lot of aspects of our lives for granted. Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, it appears we have all needed a little reminder to appreciate what we had. Now that it’s gone we get the chance to change our ways as we walk into a new future.

The world has changed in many ways the past few months. I wonder why we all can’t just stay home more often. Less traffic, less pollution, less stress… unless theres no income, but then why do we have to work so hard to make money all the time only to have no time to enjoy life?

The system is broken and we have to fix it somehow so that all people have all their basic needs taken care of first. No more of this paycheck to paycheck living on a thread kind of crap. Barely making ends meet is a terrible way to live. Let us find ways to make homeless, hungry and sickness extinct.

Seriously, it appears that the proverbial shit has actually hit the fan. Everything was affected so fast by the virus that it’s painful to watch. At the same time a big shift is occurring. People everywhere can no longer ignore how intimately connected all life on earth is. That is huge!!!

No matter how much we want to go back to business as usual it’s impossible for most of us to stick our heads back in the sand after seeing how rapidly we can change and adapt when it’s a matter of life or death. Most of us want to live. Most of us have health and happiness as a top priority in life yet fall far short of health and happiness because we run full speed on the hamster wheel with no time to breathe.

Even I have a hard time finding time to meditate. I always feel as if theres something I should be doing to be a productive member of society/my family and everybody always has an expectation for how they would like me to spend my time (and the money I don’t really even have). I’m fortunate to be in a situation where my basic needs are met (and often exceeded with lots of chocolate) but still I find my stress levels going thru the roof far too often. It is crazy that life has come to be this way. Until now there didn’t appear to be a way out.

But the hamster wheel has stopped, abruptly. Now the wheels in our heads and hearts are spinning with questions. Where do we go from here? We need to eat, we need to sleep, we need shelter and we are finding that we also need connection and community. Humans, even the ones who claim to be hermits and introverts when they really look deep into their hearts, realize, that without other humans to share stuff with, life doesn’t make much sense and it’s much more difficult. Difficult in different ways. We need each other and we need the earth and we need all of it to be healthy so we can be happy. Some may say happiness is over-rated but I would strongly disagree.

We are not here to suffer. We are here to expand our capacity for creation, understanding and love. We deserve to feel the full extent of Joy that it means to be alive on this magical planet spinning thru a vast endless universe of space. Life doesn’t have to be so hard, but right now it is. Partially because of a series of choices that were made for us before we knew we had a choice. We may still think it is not an option to choose differently than we did before but at what expense? What’s it all worth in the end? Why do you think you exist at all?

Tell me your creation story in the comments, please.

I want to know what you think that this life is about.

What is the meaning of life?

How did we get here and what is our purpose for being alive?

Where do we go from here?

Thank you.