Mother Earth Needs a Reset

It seems that this Coronavirus has our world in panic, fear and great change in our normal daily activities. A large part of our population is under a stay at home order to control the spread; this is putting great strain on our economy, our livelihood and our sanity. But what if this situation is actually one of the best events to happen to many of us?! Most family activities are scattered across the need to pursue money, jobs, career, and education. When we are not busy with activities linked to survival, we tend to spend the remaining time staring at the television or going out and excessively socializing. The bottom line is that most of us do not focus on wholesome family activities because of the stress for survival in our modern times. It seems that family members are always busy with something and it seems difficult to find time during our busy week to spend time together as a family. Additionally, we rarely find the time we need to work our own mental health and wellbeing. Many of the people I work with state that they simply do not have the time to properly take care of themselves. When do we ever stop and just relax to enjoy the people that are in our lives?

We are also damaging our planet with all the technology, production and waste that we generate in our daily lives. I am not familiar with specific statistics, but we certainly must be producing a large amount of carbon emissions…