We’re All In This Together (WAITT)!
The unexpected and unwelcome arrival of COVID-19 continues to teach us one thing. We are a nation that cannot wait. Our natural instinct is to go, go, go. In this time, especially, we’re tired of waiting. We’re fidgety. We’re bored. We’re anxious. We’re tired of waiting to go outside, to go to the gym, to go to the park, to go to school and work, to celebrate – to just be together again.
We are dying to go back to the way things were. But that’s just it. We are, quite literally, dying when we defy stay-at-home orders to do things the way we once use to. We know that the spread of COVID-19 is more rampant after mass social gatherings that didn’t exhibit social distance practices, such as Mardi Gras and Spring Break. We couldn’t wait.
Yet, we are waiting for a change. What we need to understand and remember that if we wait, things will change. This crisis, this enemy, doesn’t discriminate among races or financial status. It doesn’t respond to money or trade deals. But it will respond to our unified response. It will respond to WAITT. Because even though we are more physically further apart than before, we’re all in this together. We are, as we pledge, indivisible.
We need to accept that things will not change as fast as we’d like — but they will change for the better. Every time we think that we’ve had it and that we can’t wait anymore, we need to remember that this wait is perhaps the most noble sacrifice we’ll make in our lives. How often do any of us have a direct impact on saving lives? In a far-reaching way, we’re blessed to be afforded the opportunity to help. As we go through this time that ironically focuses on the sacrifice of one for the redemption of many, let us remember that the wait in which we respond today will influence the future of mankind. And that is something worth waiting for.
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