The experiences with the Wuhan Chinese Corona Virus 2019 teaches many valuable lessons. Although because of the mass hysteria promulgated by the main media outlets for many nefarious reasons, relatively few people are in a position to seek to learn from such experiences. However, it is precisely such an experience that lessons are best learned not just for the future, but in terms of augmenting experience, minimizing risk, and enhancing life, which of course includes productive work and business.
Light is more than a metaphor. It is clarifying. It enhances vision, and vision can apply to optical vision as well as mental clarity. Learning from challenges also provides greater clarity. Challenges compel people to face facts and find practical solutions, or as in this case death is not too far-fetched to contemplate. It is not that death can always be avoided. However, most people would chose not fall victim to premature death if at all possible. This is a reasonable. And, it also highlights why life lessons, learning, and clarity are so important. Unfortunately, largely because of the bad influences of school—which represents the first exposure to the idea and practice of training that most people encounter—scarce attention is paid to the principle and value of clarity. Clarity of vision is a very useful value and skill to possess, but the only way to possess it, is to have practiced or trained in it.
It is no coincidence that the renaissance was called the age of reason or light. It is also why light and clarity are often considered a simple of birth. In all cases, an individual could be said to have awakened. But, what is light? What is clarity? These are more than mere academic questions. With all of the misinformation and disinformation and fake news, it is very difficult to know what is truth or value. To have truth, light, and clarity it is necessary to have self-trust, a trust in your ability to see and recognize facts, which is to say to see and recognize reality. This is no small task because most of the modern social experiences encourage individuals to dismiss facts and live for the moment usually ill-prepared, ill-informed, and misguided. In other words, it is the state of confusion that school, the media, and society-at-large encourages. But, confusion leads to self-doubt, and self-doubt prevent self-trust. Therefore, in this crisis or in any crisis the first order of individual basis is not necessarily to run out and buy up all of the toilet paper, but to seek to strengthen the inner-self. With self-trust it is possible to find alternatives to basic problems like the shortage of toilet paper, soap, and hand sanitizer. Better still, a level of self-trust would have encouraged certain individuals to have prepared with certain basic necessities long before a shortage manifest. However, this is not a style and mentality of preparedness that tends to be encouraged. Quite the contrary. The general rule is put off until tomorrow what could be done today. So, this becomes the second great challenge of finding the light: to preserve, to protect, and to defend the light once it is achieved. This challenge is made all the more difficult when so many in society underestimate the value of mental and material preparedness or any situation let alone a crisis. Those who suggest elementary steps to prepare for a crisis or emergency, are typically disregarded. To find the light in such darkness, then because all the more precious to do and to keep doing.