RE: The Subtle or not so Subtle Messages of Lockdown

Thank you, I very rarely win the million dollar pot ;-)

Lucky that chickens are chickens and people are people. Otherwise we might as well all be chickens. Although a chicken has little chance of attributing chicken-like characteristics to a human being, conversely, this happens across the entire animal kingdom, that they seem to be humans to us. HaHa!

Of course, how could I disagree with you in what you reply? Sometimes it all becomes too much. Although, I have to say from my experience, it depends on whether I get too fixated on something. The other day, while husband and I were watching funny videos, I pointed to a masked person very far in the background. And my man, "I didn't even see that." I immediately caught myself thinking, "Oh my goodness, you can't pay attention to anything else anymore!"

For me, this is becoming a real Zen exercise, because I want to learn to see the masked people as if they don't disturb me. Who knows when it will disappear from the public eye? I think I'm just torturing myself the most in the process and so I ask myself, "Okay, are you kind of into permanent torture?" Already I regret living in constant worry for the last year and a half, I could have probably spent my time a lot less worried.

That said, I'm far from my ideal: when someone really barks at me, I usually bark back. It's different online, where I can curb my impulses. I rather enjoy testing how much I succeed.

I could be the one shouting around and calling for justice, I've been without a job for many months, sacked for not wanting to wear a mask and test myself. If it was easy to swim against the current in these times, we wouldn't have such a current in the first place. But if I had been in a senior permanent position, I would have tried to have more influence on the upper and lower level. As many people are doing at the moment, rather unrecognised and without hanging it on the bell. They would gain nothing from it, rather the opposite. So everyone has their place in the world and everyone has an importance. Oh... I apologise for my tendency to monologue.

Greet the chickens :)