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1.6 KiB
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30 lines
1.6 KiB
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title: "Hardships"
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permalink: "/hardships"
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description: "I hope that as we complain about our individual situation this also moves us to think about others."
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keywords: ""
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image: "egg"
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image-attrib: "No, sometimes your response to the circumstance is not just about what you are made of."
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If the goal for our existence on this earth is to [love](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A34-35&version=NASB), then maybe all our hardships' purpose is for us to learn empathy.<!--more-->
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We have been in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two weeks now.
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It has affected people in different ways--from something simple such as being bored to more extreme such as being on the brink of insanity or death due to hunger.
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I know you might have heard this said: "The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's not about the circumstance, but what you are made of."
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This could have worked well in some other set up, but in the situation we have now, this is far from inspiring.
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The lockdown and call for social distancing has shown us a more grave matter: that there has been a huge SOCIAL GAP among our people, and this is killing people.
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Poor people are not made of weaker materials than the rest.
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We can never tell them to "just endure."
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We cannot rely on the overused belief that "we are resilient".
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At the end of the day, one thing is more likely than anything else: whatever you are going through right now, others are also experiencing something similar or much much worse.
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I hope that, whatever our circumstance we are in, this also moves us to think about others.
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