What has 2020 taught you?
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Mmmmm sigh. I had been rolling these thoughts in my head this past week about what any of this means for me. What am I suppsoed to do with how things are now? How am I going to keep it together? How am I going to try and plan -to what extent can I even plan-for my future…?
You know… it was easy to be poetically geeky before the current state of the world. Easy to spend time reading about or listening to quasi-scientific theories about where the world is headed to with all the tech advancements, the transhumanist (half human-half robot) taking off. But now… now it seems like either we need some huge scientific break to expel us out of this difficult situation or we just need to maybe slowly understand that the world is changing in similar ways it has before (with wards, technological breakthroughs etc) and that we must adapt to what it is today rather than sit and wait for "this to pass"…
I was just thinking the other day about a parallel between AI, machine-learning and the human brain; how sometimes I can use currently acquired information about how things work to figure out how something else within the same context would in some near future. (I get that a lot at work..). Yet we as humans, still know so little about language and cognition and other subtleties of how we use our brains and its outputs to interpret and re-shape the world. (for anyone into that stuff: here `s an interesting podcast I like to listen to and here`s one YT channel I enjoy as well).
Anyways… what do I know ?! I just like to dip my toes in some of these subjects and enjoy the feeling :) And I mean we (as a human collective) have achieved some great things this year: another fully recovered HIV-infected person, successfully sent astronauts into space with Elon`s Falcon 9 - SpaceX on a semi-reusable technology; 5G technology facilitating internet and increasing speed (please, don`t come after me for this one :) ..), technology to detect cancer within moments, predictions at genome level and a bunch of other things who are even (hopefully) going to help us control and cure this `Rona virus doing its thing out there.
But really on a personal level I think 2020 taught me:
To be more patient for the things I want ( when you have to wait in line to even get into the store, wait more for all the cleaning and distancing processes and sometimes not finding the product you need, having to wait for delivery of clothes and almost anything instead of instant in-store shopping, you learn to take things more slowly and appreciate them more even :)
Be more mindful of what I buy when I buy it and why I buy it (like toilet paper, hand-soap, hand-sanitizer, etc- I`ve recently caught myself being more mindful about trying to pickup 2 boxes of hand soap refill, when then I would put one back on the shelf if there were just 2 left, or considering urgency "I don`t urgently need 2 refill 1L soap bags, right?!"
That friends and even family may have different perspectives on this whole thing and how the world is or should be reacting. Everyone has their own interpretation and assessment based on the information they gather & the way they process it. It`s hard for everyone and everything is trying to understand the "where to from here"
To give people their space of processing and understanding the current state of the world in their own way, though I may not agree with their conclusions
What if MAYYYBEEE … this pandemic is here to push a breakthrough in humanity to finalize or finally discover technology that either helps cure this thing, help our biological bodies protect themselves better or just technology that expands the human body beyond its biological-cellular limitations..?! Hahaha.. Maybe I am taking this theorizing too far, but what else is there to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
