2020-04-06 We Can Create What We

Seems like everywhere you look today, there is reason to feel scared. Listening to the daily press conferences by our elected officials, followed by the second guessing that happens afterwards, it is easy to feel frightened and depressed. But you don’t have to project your expectation of worse things to come into this fear-full situation when the potential of good things happening is just as likely.

Why do we like to be scared?

A friend of mine shared that he was watching movies to pass his “sheltering in place” time. He had just finished viewing the movie Contagion and was genuinely scared by what he saw.

“This might open the door to “survival of the fittest” scenarios!” He complained. “The strong will vanquish the weak and they will take the supplies we stored for our families.” He then concluded. “I better get a gun!”

Anything is possible, I guess, but I believe this is better left to the people dedicated to stop terrorism on our soil to work on these issues. I already have my hands full trying to keep my social distance from others.

Quantum Physics and the coronavirus

Quantum Physics says any situation can trigger an unlimited number of options. This means that a terrorist attack is possible, or that the unacceptable human behavior in the aforementioned movie could happen during this reign of the coronavirus terror. But are they likely to happen? I am convinced bad things will happen during this period if we allow fear to be our focus.

Hysterics have real negative health consequences. There is a term call the nocebo effect that applies to negative thoughts that can kill you. Some people have died just from the suggestion they had the symptoms of a feared illness even though they did not have the illness.

Choose the good

Just as the possibility exists for bad things to happen, there is a more than an equal chance that we can convert the situation into success. But we have to choose the good by letting go of what we fear.

Yes, the ominous threat of the coronavirus is scary. There are many unknowns, and that makes this harder to deal with. There is also the fearful guesswork towards the loss of people, property, businesses and savings. It will be challenging to deal with these things.