The Last Sapien | stripped

Stripped Spirits | Overall I do not perceive myself as a spiritual person, yes, I am thankful for a divine power somewhere up there and not once, though find myself far from any daily worshiping, I usually like my spirits mixed into a surprising drink. Taking my short run in the near by town of Arlington, passing on empty streets, locked churches, unattended synagogues and reading about left alone masques during the upcoming Ramadan, there is something of a greater power imposing it. All religions are united in prayer to a single god to remove the threat of the Corona virus. Standing there under god stripped of any religion - just the plain people having a single ask - letting it go away, seems to throw us back in time for before the religions were created.

With the face masks you cannot tell a man with a beard from a woman with a mask or vice versa, unless you cross the social distance - so this brings us to the granular humane without gender or religion all sharing the same faith all go through the same agony and all have a single hope in common, to get our life back in place, safe from the outbreak.

There is a lot of power in that thought that runs back in time and back to where we are at.

During such times you tend to compare with other times that the world was on the verge of extinction, which is not the case now - today we have developed greater fear from the unknown, which we interpret as "we all gonna' die".

During this time of the year we commemorate 75 years remembering that my own people faced near extinction by the German war machine and its allies during WWII. There is a very strong question being asked time and again about where was god during these times - he/she whom has created mankind is letting his/her chosen people to disappear. This question is surfacing now again where hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in a matter of couple months. I heard couple interpretations of wise religious men, whom survived the holocaust, that claimed that people held to their beliefs then even striped from their humanity. I can argue a lot about it, as babies and small children had no way to contain the horrific conditions and manslaughter, their parents and older ones could not survive it nevertheless. Though one of the folks above that lost his entire family while at the age of five, claims that he is thankful to god and places no blame or judgement, claiming that we tend to stare up in anger when things go wrong more often than we are blessing for the good that happens to us. It does not justify any of the mesmerizing cruelty, it just plants hope even when you are barley your own skin and bones.

Wow. This blog turned a heavy lifting. Finishing it up with one strong song that played in my head while running the above thoughts - symbolizing yet another pandemic we have faced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4. After all life goes on, so long we breath, so long we are thankful, even for that mere fact that we can.