We don't like the unknown.
All the uncertainty around this virus.
And for those with Long Covid, that uncertainty has no time limit.
If there is anything that I would take to be a defining feature of humans it's the desire to have control over things. We want to control the weather through rain dances and incantations; to control the animals by shamans and by force and by domestication; we want to control each other through beliefs and manipulation. We want to control the disease by the vaccine.
When there really is nothing we can do, that's when we face up to reality, the true reality of existence. We are so small and so impotent, despite our self-aggrandizement.
I wonder... in my meditations there is this phase in between trying and falling asleep or giving up... where there's an alertness of I know not what... and that seems to be the place where the Muse headset suggests I am at my calmest. I am not fighting my mind by seeking to control it, nor am I lost and completely at its whim... I am surfing it, not drowning in it nor trying to tame the waves.
I wonder if that applies to life... maybe it's what the Daoists were on about. Going with the flow doesn't mean sacrifice and submission so much as a cessation of the pointless, purposeless resistance.
The river flows fast and strong.
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