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COVID-19 lessons

 The whole world is brought down to its knees by a micro-organism one billionth our size. We see the result of this as being separated from everything we thought we couldn't survive without - our favorite sport, restaurant, gym or things that we thought added value to our lifestyle - malls, theaters, parks, vacation or beaches. But what we actually should notice is how our hubris is ground to dust. The richest of the rich, the strongest of the strong or even the most powerful of the rulers, have all been bound by one thread with the rest of us - mortality! If anything, our false pride in thinking that our wealth or highest educational qualifications or jobs or titles that we hold or even our religious beliefs or ethnicity made us better than the person next to us, should be decimated by this global pandemic. We judge others by their weaknesses, by the choices that they make in their lives not even knowing what they go through, but when we come face-to-face with ugly and tough choic...