I read a blog post this morning by a well-known science fiction writer and felt more than compelled to write this post.
First, the author (no, I will not disclose the name nor gender, as this person is fairly smart but seems to be a bit misguided in light of current events) wrote about all of the uncertainty in the world and how the whole coronavirus is impacting the world economy. No argument there, however said author seemed to imply that the entire global market is on the verge of collapsing and we may never recover from it.
Now, I am not a fortune teller and cannot see the future, but I am not freaking out about this whole mess. True, I am nearing the close of my second week of working from home, and I am thankful for having this job. Also, the company I work for is thriving to help bring products to the various manufacturers who are building many of the world's leading edge innovations. It is also on the forefront of many manufacturers who are changing their business model to help build ventilators and other necessary medical devices to battle this pandemic. But the world economy collapsing? I find that hard to believe.
Are you familiar with the book "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard? It's a quick read that is well worth the time. The gist of it is the world is always changing and if something disrupts it, we should figure out a way to move with it. In other words, if we're mice in a maze and our cheese has always been in one particular spot, what happens when the cheese is no longer there? We go find it in its new place.
Many of our local restaurants have changed their business model to offering curb side service or even home delivery, whereas they never offered it before. Is business through the roof? Probably not. But then again, if you offer excellent service, you never know where this economy will take you.
People talk about this being the New Normal. Heck, this all started for me on January 16th of this year (11 weeks ago, to be exact), when my wife passed away. In a way, I am thankful she is no longer in this world because many of the risk factors for COVID-19 was right in her wheelhouse: diabetes, former cancer patient, respiratory complications. Then again, I have had a whole host of New Normals across my life, even as far back as April 2011 when my wife was originally diagnosed with leukemia.
I get it. I am not arguing with the fact that the world as we know it will not be like it was. But I see that as a good thing. Now I have the ability to work from home if I need to. Also, when my writing business skyrockets and I am able to do it full-time, I have now developed the habits to make it work whereas I had a difficult time to before all this.
Also, I truly believe that this world is in God's hands. I have complete faith in God and everything He has done. Only through my Christian faith has the impact of my wife's passing been a blessing when I know she is in a far better place.
And I will see her again one day. It's hard for me to fathom a world without such hope.
Lastly, as a writer myself, what made me be more than compelled to write this is due to many of the more vocal writers bitching about not being able to write, bitching about the election and what it does to the publishing industry, and quite frankly just plain bitching in general. I am convinced the majority of writers may not be in this camp, but when the ones who are more successful seem to be the more bitchy ones, it makes me scratch my head in wonder. For me, I've been writing more and more each day.
I also think many others are too. The ones who aren't seem to be spending more time posting their bitchiness online when they could just hunker down and work.
Art is, after all, an essential business too. Where else are we going to be entertained from, except from the creation that is within our own minds?
So get out there and do it. Now!
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