True Colours. People and society go along OK until a crisis happens. A way someone reacts to a crisis shows their true colours, but that depends whether the crisis is local or widespread. There have been some crises this year on Australia, the main one being the bush fires. So why was that different to this one? There was disbelief, sadness, fear and anger over that. All of those emotions were widespread apart from fear, fear was localised around those areas at most risk. The community pulled together and the whole country/world supported those affected by the fires, it brought people together. Great kindness and compassion was shown.
Now, with the current crisis the fear is widespread and society is now going selfish as the impact could affect them personally. I think a lot can be learnt from how society is currently behaving, the true colours are being shown so can now be dealt with. My guess is that people will look back at this in disbelief. My hope is that there is a spike in the panic and once people gain perspective then compassion and kindness will again be displayed. So what are the true colours, is it kindness/compassion or is it selfishness? I think fear makes people behave irrationally, I’m hoping that people will reflect on how they thought and behaved, it’s an opportunity for us all to evolve and mature.
I’m hoping people will also start to realise how detrimental media (including social media) is to society. When there were a handful of news channels (i.e. pre internet) there was some consistency. Now there are thousands of channels, all competing to ‘get the scoop’. There’s a lot of time spent on sensationalising stuff and also ‘fake news’. Individuals are now able to add to this ‘fake news’ by propagating rumours and posts on social media, so much of it is not fact based.
My Inner Self 