Deep Truths

"Destroy ignorance to reveal deep truth" 

This is the Verdic astrologic predictions for present time.

Not to believe in it. Yet observing the events happening around us during this Covid 19 pandemic many truths seem to surface, making us aware of things we either don't know or choose to ignore.

• Global connectedness- The depth and breadth of international flow of products, services, people, information, capital and how inter dependent countries are.
• Worldwide, the real meaning of essential services. The importance of front line workers in a crisis and how they are undervalued and underpaid.
• The world over, the multitude of people living paycheck to paycheck revealing the need for fairer wealth distribution and the shortcoming of capitalism.
•  Singapore’s overwhelming reliance on foreign labour such that our essential services will be crippled if they are unable to be deployed.
•  When we only take care of our own and ignore the interest of any segment of the population ( in our case the migrant workers ) the consequence will bounce back to haunt us
•  The revelation of another pandemic which is domestic violence and abuse when families are forced to stay at home
•  People all over are lost when they can not socialise or interact with others underlining man's inability to be alone with himself and his need for distractions.  Pascal calls it "the fear of the silence of existence". 

On a lighter and personal note these are some small truths revealed for me:

•          When eavesdropping my husband’s conversation with colleagues when working from home, I realise his job is really not as easy as I have always thought.
•          With all the time available during the lockdown I am still not clearing the store room or cabinet. Many of my claims about lack of time are mere excuses  

This then is the time for reflections big and small.