#workingfromhome

In these times that are mainly dominated by the Corona-crisis, people are massively proposed to work as much as possible from their homes. It is no big secret that this strategy will lead to numerous new insights.

I came along a beautiful poem from Kitty O’Meara that shows me the essence of what I believe is currently happening on a higher level of abstraction. We are in the midst of a global spiritual crisis which fuels the transition towards a more meaningful society where giving more meaning to real essentials is becoming the new normal. And where we as a society will grow into better than ever before. (never waste a good crisis).

I used this poem to transform it into a text + image format, so that people who are visually oriented get some extra inspiration from the images. Feel free to share this. Pictures used are royaltee-free and come from pixabay.

#workingfromhome

And the people stayed home

And read books…

…and listened…

…and rested…

…and exercised…

…and made art…

…and played games…

…and learned new ways of being…

…and were still.

And listened more deeply.

Some meditated…

…some prayed…

…some danced.

Some met their shadows.

And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed.

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant…

…dangerous…

…thoughtless…

…heartless ways…

…the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed…

…and the people joined together again…

…they grieved their losses…

…and made new choices…

…and dreamed new images…

…and created new ways to live…

…and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

PS: The time to take more time has arrived: #workingfromhome increases chances or possibilities to connect with people that you would otherwise not have connected with so easily. The attention for the crisis locally, close to where you live, will battle with the attention that you could also give to pure #workingfromhome.

Because it is now easier to connect with others, most probably already locally active which increases the trust level (local = more trusted), you will start to see that also more possibilities to organize will unveil themselves, especially those that help solving local problems. This in turn will cause more pressure on traditional, centralized models of cooperation that are more efficient (if you look at them as an ‘island’) but less effective and usually much more slower.

People that are not yet so accustomed to #workingfromhome will discover that spending your daily time will come into a whole new perspective. They will discover that taking regular rests #becauseitcan will create a whole bunch of new insights. And where we used to think that everything has to become always much faster, cheaper, more efficient etc. #justbecausethatiswhattheyhaveallwaystoldus, we will conclude that there are viable alternatives.

And we will discover that the ‘rat-race’ we so often talk about is nothing more than a manufactured social construct that can be unmanufactured easily. And we will discover that the never ending economic growth which fuels consumerism which seems to be a mandatory thing, due to the crisis we will learn that taking a step back is easily done and it can be fun too!

Last but not least, below figure. ‘A MODEST PROPOSAL’, clearly shows why the Corona crisis now can also be a catalyst for slowing down, taking a few steps back, creating more time while not adding to the economy, degrowing to get back to a more sustainable economy (Kate Raworth Doughnut model!) etc.

Summarized, we live in an era where (often age-old) dogma’s, convictions, philosophies and evevn religions will be layed under a microscope, and we as a global society will start to invent new better alternatives. A beautiful, healthy, safe, clean World is waiting for us. Do you want to help creating it?