Testing … one, two, three…Seems like my fingers still know their way around a keyboard.
It’s been a long break from writing, one that I did not want to take nor was I planning on taking anytime soon.
But hey… who am I to question the major terrible hand that was handed to us on a global scale, especially when the rant takes off from my inability to practice my hobby of writing when people are facing a life altering event.
The chaos ensued by Covfefe (I cannot believe no one coined this meme yet, especially POTUS) was, is and will continue to be the quickest hard left earthlings have ever taken.
What is even more baffling to me, is that the mini ‘chaos’s’ it created in each and every household: Homeschooling, distant working, lost routines, financial distress, relocation issues, inability to travel home etc.
Those and many more, are events of ginormous proportions each on their own, let alone when they are handed to us in bulk.
And even though, I genuinely wanted to write a happy fun comedy piece and find the silver lining in this pandemical season, it seems disingenuous to side-step the biggest bill we all yet have to pay when it becomes due soon.
With that thought lingering in my mind, I seem to be unable to find that silver lining… well, maybe the one true positive thing I can say is that we are all now cooler on the account that we all elbow- bump instead of shake hands.
Apart from that, this pandemic mostly changed nothing for me: I always never sleep, I have no kids to homeschool or send to school, I mostly work from home, I hate to be hugged or kissed and I’ve been through harder financial times.
Maybe the one thing it took away from me is travel, but that’s okay. I find solace in knowing that no one else is doing it too. Selfish but also imperative to my sentiment that I am treated equally like literally everyone else except diplomats.
Small bills we pay daily. The pandemic is still amongst us, despite what your auntie sends on the family WhatsApp group. And while we like to pretend that businesses and life are back to normal for our own sanity, the truth is we are still functioning with an underlining catastrophe.
When the vaccine will be distributed and the virus’s punch will lose its momentum, that’s when the general population of the third rock from the sun will truly be able to go back to their old familiar normal. And once all the channels of living will cast away their limitations, that’s when the deficit will begin to avail itself. Remember, we are still sheltered, we’re still paying small bills.
This is the most Schrödinger-ish Black Swan event to ever exist: A Black Swan event in actuarial sciences is when an event builds up unaccounted for until it overflows and devastates its host. We are aware of the huge bill due soon but we are acting as if it is never due, which gives it that extra zhuzh (editor’s note: We didn’t realize that juj is spelled as zhuzh) of fitting under Schrödinger’s theory of two contradicting events coexisting simultaneously.
That doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. It never is. It’s just one huge leap into the unknown we will all be forced to make soon, some will overcome immediately, others will not.
But what I am definitely certain of: We will all overcome eventually. Work harder and humble yourselves, but most importantly “Brace yourselves… it’s coming.”
George Tarabay is a marketing expert Filmmaker/ Comedian/Podcaster. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud @GeorgeTarabay. Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash
