Say hello, live and endure! On the survival of humanity through individuals

Milton Erikson said in one of his books: "he who doesn't understand that life is not only beautiful, that it isn't made only of joys and pleasures, will suffer terribly throughout his life."

For several years now, we have surely been going through a hard period. We were thrown off course by the pandemic, and now when we were ready to return to normal, we've been thrown off course by war.

It is almost shocking that we can treat serious diseases and yet still have a pandemic. Equally shocking is to see that, although we've evolved so much, people behave in war exactly as they did 100 years ago.

It seems we are living a paradox, and this is probably what takes us so far out of our comfort zone, shocks us, scares us.

We thought that in 2022 everything could be resolved diplomatically, through negotiations and discussions. Well, we found that it's not so at all!

It seems people haven't evolved as much as technology has! And yet, how is that possible, when nobody other than people developed technology?!

What I do know very clearly is exactly the statement I began this text with.

It isn't easy. Life is made of all kinds of challenges. Until the pandemic, challenges were individual — each with their drama, their problems, but they existed in each individual.

Now, we have challenges at the societal, even global level!

What do we do with this situation?

Society wouldn't exist without the individual. So what each of us can do is focus on ourselves, our family, our small group, where we live our day-to-day!

Life continues, regardless of whether we're doing well or struggling! We can make things a little better. We can influence our small, restricted group of people.

Yes, we can't stop a global pandemic or a war, so there's no point in consuming ourselves too much on these subjects.

But we can stop on a small scale, in personal life and in our circle, the drama, the fear, the lack of desire for life. We can leave the house — the Sun rises every day the same. We can offer care and love to those around us. We can stop the circle of panic and sadness that has stopped the joys we had until a few years ago.

We can continue to say: "I love you!", "Thank you!", "I'm sorry!", "Forgive me!"

And when this period ends, we will look each other in the eyes and will be able to declare with joy: "It's over! And I contributed a little!"