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Sorry this is so late to launch this week...literally haven't had time to do anything but pack and deliver food.
Because we are all completely swamped with voices, opinions, advice, and graphs during this season, I am having trouble deciding what is worth our time vs. what is just me voicing my own opinion because my ego wants to be heard.
With that in mind, this week will just be one story.
Today I delivered food to homes all day...I only had about 25 drops, much less than the rest of our drivers are carrying right now, but about 6 hours worth of driving and thinking.
I would drive through town and I intentionally didn't listen to anything or try and distract myself. I tried to make eye contact with every person I saw walking, driving, riding shotgun, or just standing on a corner.
What I noticed was this...there is something happening right now that is no respecter of color, gender, intelligence, or looks. There is an underlying current that is running through the air that links each of us instantly. It's the first thing on everyone's mind each time we make eye contact. And it's NOT divisive. It's actually UNIFYING. I waved at each person I saw today...literally hundreds of waves with blue gloved hands and a bandana pulled up on my nose.
Any other day of my life this would have been inappropriate attire, and most folks would have called the police on me. Today though, it was accepted without question and everyone to the person looked at me like, "We get it!"
It's almost like there is a cosmic "inside joke" that we are all in on together.
Are you conservative? You get it.
Are you liberal? You get it.
Are you religious? You get it.
Are you an atheist? You get it.
Are you from America?...or from the other side of the world? You get it.
Are you sad? Laid off? Goofy? Going stir crazy? YOU GET IT!
And because we ALL share this unspoken info, we are brothers and sisters.
Here's what really interesting to me though. We always have been brothers and sisters. We normally just let these labels get in between us because we lead with those false versions of ourselves. I'm known as this, that, or the other...but now, there is something that is bigger than all and affects each of us...ALL OF US.
Whatever happens, moving forward, remember that each of us is only that other human standing on the corner or sitting behind the wheel of that car.
Now is not the time to tell someone why they are wrong or why the data you have is the most accurate because it takes into account some hidden formula that no one else knows about.
Nope.
Now is the time to look at that other masked face, glove wearing, goof ball and recognized that to them you are also just a masked face, glove wearing, goof ball. I am your brother. You are my family. Living or Dying, we are in this all TOGETHER.
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