In three days time we will be given the roadmap out of the current restrictions. Out Premier has announced this intention and it certainly is something to look forward to. Whilst we haven’t been too badly affected where I live, there are many in Melbourne who must be doing it very tough. So a future plan will be welcome — something to look forward to. Hope.
Yet in reality any plan of this kind can only be a projection — a possibility even. We are all familiar with the weather forecast, and how often that doesn’t live up to our expectations. So I can’t help but wonder if this plan will be like the weather prediction — promising a balmy sunny day yet delivering a cold blustery wet one.
We put a lot of faith in these predictions, hoping that they are accurate. But it is difficult to be a believer when we just have to look at what was predicted to happen with the virus in early March. And it was nothing like the actual occurrence.
Still when we stop and look back over the past few months there are positives to be taken from it all. We’ve learnt a lot about our resilience and have had to draw on strength that most of us didn’t know we had. We’ve seen instances of amazing kindness and caring for each other. We’ve seen some absolute stupidity as well, but that is always there too I’m sure. We’ve had to step off the merry-go-round that was life and learn to sit back and reassess.
Many people have lost jobs, businesses and livelihoods have failed and it probably will be a long hard road to come back from. Some might think that their problems are insurmountable and that they will never recover. Which brings to mind how we felt when Kelly died; that life was never going to be the same and we’d never see any form of normal again. But we as a human race are very adaptable. We only have to look at the aftermath of the bushfires and see the resilience and courage displayed by those who have lost everything.
So I believe that we will manage to come through this, to survive and eventually thrive. No, we won’t see the world as it was before but perhaps we can each do our bit to make it a better one.
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