For Everything a Reason?

as in just because...

I believe there is always a reason for everything that happens.  At least I want to believe this. The problem is, we don't always know what the reason is.  That's why it is so frustrating in times like these to not come up with a good explanation for why.  And ultimately the most dissatisfactory answer is, we don't really know.  And we may never know.

Oh, I don't mean scientists won't find the source of the this coronavirus.  But then again, maybe they won't.  Does it ultimately matter at this point? I do know they will figure out how it is spread and how it circled the globe so quickly.  And I truly believe that a vaccination will be found sometime, somehow.  Things always work out.  Unless they don't.  And if they don't, in this case, we will soldier on, adapting to a new way of living.  But, is there a reason?

Perhaps it was just time.  Perhaps the world had gotten to the point that we were well overdue for a global crisis.  Certainly the way the world was headed was not really sustainable.  Pollution & global warming, food insecurities, social dichotomies, endless wars,  corruption and greed.  All these things led us to this point.  Perhaps that is the reason: it was just time.

There is an opportunity in all of this.  The opportunity will be to change our ways, to rise to the occasion and become better stewards of our planet.  I wonder, though.  Even at the skies are becoming more clear and blue than they have been in decades, the air is more breathable.  Congestion has lessened.  

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