11/09/2020
A collaborative piece of art✍️❤️
FUNdemic: Excavating the Last Resort of Hope
⠀⠀⠀The world where we are residing is crammed with complexity. It takes a million minds to decipher its obscure existence. Nature is as intricate as the world. It digs out its most powerful phenomenological weapon to make us realize that it is alive and should not be abused.
⠀⠀⠀This first quarter of 2020 will go down in history as the health crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic dominated people's lives. Millions of people got ill and hundreds of thousands were left as casualties. It is an understatement to say that we are in a brand new world filled with uncertainties, fear and medical crisis. Our very way of living has changed dramatically, and we do not have the answers we want. Establishments were temporarily closed and mass gatherings were cancelled as the country puts in community quarantine to avoid the possible influx of this respiratory disease.
⠀⠀⠀We feel bad for not making most of our time this quarantine period. We are going through a health crisis and an overall traumatic experience and no one should be invalidated for how they cope with it. Corona virus lockdown is taking a toll on mental health, and one can easily feel overwhelmed. There are, however, people who remain terrified and are becoming stressed and desperate. And then there is a news everyday that you can't escape of numbers rising, insufficient health care causing more fear and anxiety. Then the guilt of being privileged than many; feeling helpless when you hear of people in a worse state, out of work, homeless, food or the bare necessities, frontline workers risking everything, the affected battling the disease and isolated. We all need a good support system in a form of family and friends; we also need to utilize proper coping mechanisms that have always existed and learn psychological techniques for coping in difficult situations to come to a place of calm, hopefulness and acceptance. The saliency of possessing qualities like these is much more needed this time. The essence of felicity is innate to us, Filipinos. No matter what we are facing, we still manage to smile and laugh. Possessing such qualities is a key to uplift the lost hope of humanity. The inalienable right to pursue excavating the abyss of happiness was enshrined by many heroes that lived in history. They thought that if there is happiness, there will be hope. We need to be illuminated and let our inner embodiment feel the essentiality of blissfulness.
⠀⠀⠀This pandemic has thought us to be holistically formidable. We need to stand and unite to cease this global malfunction that is affecting billions of people. Excavating the last resort of hope, which is happiness, will be our final weaponry to fight the cruelty of the world. We are put in the verge of deterioration because of threatening crisis brought by both human and nature. In spite of all of this, we should not disremember the saliency of happiness. If there is happiness, hope will always be there. This crisis is just a visitor that will try to dismantle everything. To anticipate defeat is just an indefinite option for us. Our prime priority should always be focused on fighting and resolving these inevitable detriments together. With happiness on our side, nothing is unresolvable. Excavating the chasm of hope will never be easy. We need to stand together. We need to be happy. If there is happiness inside of us, the pulsating life of our lost hope will never cease. Eudaimonia, the strongest mechanism people can offer to the world.
