“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf,
“and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Covid-19 has given us a lot of time to think about what to do with the time we have. The situation is forcing us to decide what to do because the previous dynamics of our lives has been overtaken by the events of this pandemic. Are you focusing on one thing to get done, or on the many things that attract your interest? Are you becoming expert at one thing or apprentice at many things.
Do you pine for the “way things were” or are you leaving the past to the past and taking hold of the present. Please take the words of Gandalf to heart because time is short. At night in the practice of Zen we chant
Time quickly passes by and opportunity is lost.
Each of us must strive to awaken, awaken.
Take heed! Do not squander your life.