(To follow this Story from the beginning- please see: Day At The Office: Swine Flu: Day 1)
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Resurrection or Death ?
That doesn’t seem to be the pressing question anymore as much as it is treading water with a purpose. You can see the shoreline from the distance, and you try to ignore the predation lying in wait- in the form of hidden reefs, rip currents, and unknown ichthyasaurs. Fate harbors a full house of hidden agendas for souls on the edge.
But today the game waits for you. Nature’s lottery is not often thwarted, but perhaps just on this particular day, Darwin will take a pass. Either way, we can only trim the sails to match the gusts, but the wind will ultimately decide.
So it goes. You kind of have to throw out the "why do we do this" questions, and ignore the "exhausting our resources" mantra when trying to come to grips with this at the human level.
We exhaust our humanity and thus our resources with the lives we lose to combat on a daily basis. Of the 30 people that will watch a man helplessly flail in rough waters, one of us will jump in to make a difference. We become hero’s when the sum total of our unconditional effort gels to victory. Anything less, an effort not retrieved because of second thoughts or attention to a purse, well that diminishes us and our human spirit.
We are common men and women in uncommon times, but together the last loaf of bread shared shall seal our fate as a group of beings that have momentarily conquered jealousy and selfish things and have glimpsed the world again through the simpleness of a child’s eyes.
That is why we continue. And that is what the Swine Flu has delivered back to us. Our children’s eyes.
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