We must adjust.
If you are a runner,
and a brain injury takes
away your ability to run,
you must accommodate to
life without running.
Much like a runner
who suffers a brain injury
adjusts to a new life,
society must adjust to
a pandemic world.
A runner thinks
he needs running,
until he finds ways
to exist without it.
He can no longer achieve the same
euphoria he would through running.
But he must be happy.
So he finds other means.
Life is not the same.
But he manages to keep living.
And life for society in
a pandemic world
is not the same.
The desire by some
to return to business as usual
sets society in reverse.
Just as a runner does not
ask for a brain injury,
the world does not
ask for a pandemic.
Both just happen.
And in both cases,
adaptation is necessary.
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