May 29 Daily Entry -- Viruses Everywhere

When viewed as beneficial, viruses don't seem as sinister, do they? They don't have intent to kill, or even injure or maim. They are, in a sense, another way we interact with our environment.

When seen through the lens of the pandemic, the idea of a virus being a way of interacting with our environment takes on a particular visual. It brings up images of waves spreading over the earth, coating the globe slowly, then quickly, in time-lapse succession.

A lot of things seem to move in this wave-like pattern. Evolution, perhaps. When seen from a distant perspective, the time of the lizards must have been slow, at first, increasing in mass and velocity at the same time, as it turns out to be interrupted only for the next wave to advance over the surface of the earth.

Language, perhaps. Not just the rise and fall of trendy terms and affectations, but also, for example, whole vowels dominating a language for centuries, only to be shifted and replaced in a new wave by historical events.

Thoughts catch on. All the -isms and the -ologies. Romanticism, modernism, capitalism, stoicism, and so forth. Capitalism is one that seems to be reaching its zenith. Or has it shifted past its prime?

Even a human life. Rising slowly into life, separating from the mass around it, growing consciousness, growing independence, growing individualism, then sinking slowly back into dependency and one-ness. Returning to the earth. Like a wave. Consciousness rising and falling. Separating from the collective and returning to it.

And again, to shift the perspective slightly and see these waves as communication. Feedback. Dots and dashes. Zeroes and ones.

What is it telling us? And what is doing the telling? Is it us? Can we hear ourselves?

Ride the waves. Remember that you don't control this. It is bigger than you. You are here merely to be a part of it. And also perhaps to be the audience.

Imagine a virus contact chart, drawn out in great detail. You would need to put it in 3D for it to make much sense. And once in 3D it resembles a web. And interconnectedness.

You are here as part of the web. You are essential to the overall creation. And no matter what you do, you will have played your roll beautifully. You will have added complexity to life's web. Which has made it stronger, and hopefully more resilient.

So there's no need to worry, because you have done your job already.

Now, whether your job is "good" or "bad" may be up to you. You are the one who assigns the meanings.