Letter to the Editor: Facing the struggles of life together is the key
Life isn’t supposed to be easy.
Pre Covid-19 there was death and post Covid-19 there will be death but in between there is life, and life I’m afraid to say, was never easy.
At some point in the last few decades we’ve decided life is supposed to be easy.
There are motivational books telling us everything is achievable, speeches telling us all is beatable, every problem solvable but the truth is there’s an unknown in everything we’ve ever done and will ever do.
None of us knows for certain what today will bring, never mind tomorrow or even the next hour.
It’s this uncertainty, the very fact we can be met by delight and surprise, or fear and sadness that makes life what it is.
Intangible, untouchable, insatiable.
From the moment we are born we face only one certainty, death.
That said, there is an in-between. That space between birth and death we call life. The space where we’re thrown together within families, friends and communities, where struggle exists and will always persist.
The simple truth is we’re all just a set of growing beans in a constant battle against the elements.
Only we’re both the bean supports and the beans themselves. One support against a ferocious wind is no good, the beans will fail but a set of supports standing as a group, then the beans stand a chance.
Bracing together, facing the struggles of life together and we can be guaranteed one thing in this new dawn of a new normal, support, as we face the struggles of life ahead.
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