The Worst and the Best of Lent

I realize now that, when I said ‘the year of not offering unsolicited advice was the worst’- the ‘worst’ is a rather relative term.

With COVID-19 pandemic, some people may label the Lent 2020 as such.

Some people, however, may see it as the best thing that ever happened to us.

We are still too much in the thick of it to determine whether it’s truly the best or the worst.

But, it makes me think that this crisis, just like everything else in life, is what we - you and I - make of it.

For, it’s in your God-given power and mine, to make it better or to make it worse.

I had this hunch for a long time, substantiated by my experience, that some days the absolutely best choice I can make for myself and everyone around me, including the world at large, is to stay in bed and do nothing.

Some days, it's just better to determine not to accomplish a single thing from my mile-long to-do list. 

Well, now I have not only government mandate but also scientific validation for that hunch.

With the era of self-distancing, isolation and quarantine upon us, the proliferation of absolutely hilarious coronavirus memes has kept us all laughing even in the middle of all the insanity. How can we laugh when such calamity is upon us??!!

As one of the memes says, it's a defense mechanism. 

But, while the scientist are working on the vaccine, perhaps this robust sense of humor, this ability to laugh together might be one of the best medicines if not cures for COVID-19 we right now have on our (thoroughly washed and sanitized) hands.