Today I was inspired to write this post as an urgent message to my well meaning friends and associates.

Across social media today will be filled with reminders of  how much our world has changed.  Notably, most of them will be messages marinating in fear and helplessness. All will cry for action and point fingers of responsibility, some directed inward, most directed outward.

Today I encourage you to remember our place in Time.  We live in a brief moment, marked only because our species started counting a few thousand years ago.  A skoshi of time which has been repeated before: shifts in climate, plague, empires rising and falling, people at war with one another.  Time as we know it seems to force an unalterable destiny, as if the path is only changable if everyone comes together in one giant consensus.

Our place in Time is not really about whether we wear masks, change political alliances or even love one another.

Our Time is one of self annihilation of our species.  It will not be remembered when the Universe marches on.

So why, then, should we continue to wallow in self pity and bemoan the behavior of  mobs?  I encourage you to resist the temptation to use platitiudes, even those which measure the best humans offer.

Instead I encourage you to reflect on Time, and your time, here, on Earth, and in the Universe.  Find where you connect to Time, and how your time has meaning.  But Time has no room for self pity and woe. Time is active.  It moves across all of us.  It precedes and follows us.  It will leave us behind.

So, if you find your connection to Time in a Higher Being, the planet or your friend, explore it for all its wonders, what it hides, what it reveals.  But, find your actions in it.  Observers do nothing for and with time.  Time requires action!