2020: The Year of Selfishness

This pandemic has revealed exactly what type of person someone is: For others or for themselves?

These people have made wearing a mask about constitutional rights, instead of making it about the safety and wellbeing of their neighbor.

"It's a free country, I can do what I want". And thank you for showing that what you want is not healing and protection for others, but instead to loudly display your power.

These people have ignored a very basic instruction to stay at home, and at the very least, stay 6 feet apart. Summer approached, 80 degree weather rose, and suddenly it was no longer about keeping the distance, it was about raiding the beaches and planning the parties.

These people hug and kiss each other, ignoring the very real, yet simple fact, that they are placing their trust in another human claiming, "they've had no contact with COVID-19." Because, as we all know, humans are incapable of lying, right?

These people, on a normal, non-pandemic day, claim to love and care for others. You indeed "love" them when it is easy, and you are not required to remain dormant and bored within four walls; However, now that you have tasted the bitterness of a global lockdown, you are concerned for your own pleasure and that pleasure alone.

You do not care about or love your at-risk 95 year old neighbor. You care that you have been stuck inside now for 53 days and there is nothing left for you to do. You do not care about or love the at-risk type one diabetic. You care that it's been 3 months since you threw a cold one back with the boys. You "caring" about someone when it's easy and convenient to care about them is not actually caring about them. You "loving" someone when it's easy and convenient to love them is not actually loving them.

This pandemic has shown that most people only care about getting their fix of fun, and only love when they're not required to do it from a distance.

Your pleasure comes at a price right now, and the majority of you have proven that you will pay whatever it takes to get that, even if it's at the expense of someone else's safety. Good to know.

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"Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble." NIV 1 John 2:9-10