Inspiration from extertion · 3:34pm Feb 9th, 2020
My reader, have you ever thought why do we get inspired to do things? Well, perhaps this isn't a good question. More like "how."
Now, this is a more manageable question, also a lot more useful one.
Contrary to what people seem to think, inspiration isn't random. We all do get inspired by different things, but the point is that our sources do not, generally, change. How would we otherwise know where to find it?
What does inspire you? I won't presume to know, but I can tell you that for me it always has something to do with other people. Generally, people are very mediocre in everything about them and, depending on where you live, they aren't very nice to each other and even themselves. But this is exactly why people are inspiring.
Let's pick a few random people (your choosing really) and put them... let's say on a desert island (The Lord of Flies plot in a single sentence). Your bet what's going to happen? Personally, I am completely and totally with Golding here: I bet they all are going to quarrel and eventually beat each other up. Then, they can start working on getting out.
Believe on this one, there are few things as inspiring as two guys, who've been swinging at each other yesterday, building a house together.
Let's escalate. What's the largest trouble a really big number of people can find themselves in? Famine? Pandemia? Heh, allow me this bit of bluster, I can tell you from experience that those things aren't nearly the worst. Try war.
Now, war is a lot of bad things duct-taped together to make the biggest, worst problem this world has ever seen. I don't have to tell you about how it can ruin people for decades. That's what everyone knows. Instead, let me tell you about other things it does.
There's a very special place in my city. A place where every single person, local and even foreign, stops. One turn away from the central square there is an alley. This alley houses the manifest of my entire nation no less.
It's a memorial to the first people who died in our war. Not like those pretty ones, built from black stone on some well-kept grass. This one is raw, stacked from the bricks taken from the same streets where they died. It's not built by anyone specific; in fact, nobody even remembers when it appeared but everyone who comes there - cries. This is what makes us a nation, it doesn't matter where we all come from and even who we are. Everyone who cares for this place is a part of our nation.
We don't have to say anything, our eyes say everything well enough. We simply stand there for a few minutes at a time, staring at the photographs in simple frames just like those you all have in your houses. Then we walk away, silently, with renewed determination to continue.
These people died for us, doing what we all were supposed to be doing. They left their friends and families behind to do something for all of us.
We cannot allow the harshness all around to hamper us in any of our business, it will mean they died for nothing. We are not this ungrateful.
This is, my reader, the beauty of war. It is very grim, very teary, but beautiful nonetheless. I do not marvel on destruction, nor death. I marvel on how people react to these things. Solidarity is a very powerful thing. Things like these are what change the world for the better.
Grim and tired faces of the people I see every day inspire me to continue going. Because I know they care just as much as I do. This means that one day, after we finish our dispute with our neighbours, we will build this place to a shining example of what life should be like. If no tank, no bullet, no shell, no missile and no mine could stop us, what can?
I...honestly don't know what to say
5200082
That's fine. Controversy tends to do that to people. However, be mindful that we too had little to say on such things once upon a time. Our world is a very messed up place and everyone gets to talk about it one day. The only question if they will still have a choice left by that point. I think it's better not to stretch out that far.
5200150
The world can certainly be cruel for sure. And time the cruelest ruler we all obey
5202558
Time isn't cruel, it's, actually, really decent when you compare. Time erases everything, and since most of the things we see ain't pretty, it's good.
5202602
isn't it time that tells these tales of which are often tragic?
5206004
Time tells all tales, honestly and freely, it's not to blame if the play it's got is one with tragic end.
5206017
There is truth in your words
5206881
Truth is a funny thing. Everyone wants to know it; but when they do, they almost never like it.
5207023
A lot of times the truth that needs to be told the most is the truth that hurts the most
5207444
I wish this wasn't true.
5207776
As do I. Perhaps in time it will be, but I would not hold out hope for this
5207932
Neither will I.
5207955
Too rare of a case.
Not sure why I'm asking this but I guess I'm just looking for a take. What do you think of the spreading disease?
5208465
Corona? Diseases are exactly like the rest of natural disasters. Someone just draws a short stick one day. They are neither good nor bad. It's just how life is. That's it if you do not mean the conspiratorial part of it.
Though, I must say, disasters do demonstrate exactly what are we personally like, even on the level of a nation. Take a look at how each nation treats its own people evacuated from China. This will tell you more about them than they will ever tell you themselves.
I will not point fingers, but some take a lot less care than the others. There's even one nation which treats the evacuation more like a black op. And this isn't China.
5208487
I do not believe it was a weapon, not completely, but I do believe that it was made by humans, as there was a lab very close in proximity to the market where this whole disaster started. I believe it was caused by negligence and insufficient safety protocols. What I was asking was how bad do you think it will get?
Also, while I do believe in helping people, I also believe in quarantine. A greater good and all that, leaving citizens in a quarantined area rather than bringing them home and risking other lives is a necessary sacrifice. I may be scared, I may be worried, but I would never want to be the cause of another person's misery and the spread of disease, I would stay behind until it was definitive me going back home would pose no danger to the health of others. We broke quarantine and others have paid for it
5212595
Quarantine is like a prison. It exists to help people, though their inmates are not the people they are intended to help. They exist to prevent harm to others.
As to how the pandemic will go... well, we are not in the 14th century and people, as foolish as they are, start seeing sense when their lives are in danger. The ultimate weapon against any disease is caution and responsibility. In times like these people have no choice but to be responsible.
5212747
Truth in your words
There are those however, that lick doorknobs to spread the disease, merely because they want to. And yes that is a thing I have seen.
Curious, have you heard of the W.O.W Plague?
5212986
The Corrupted Blood Plague? A hilarious incident, really! With a simple bug and a few trolls, the whole game became the enlarged version of the Culling of Stratholme. For things like this video games are worth spending time on. If you give people something to play with and get out of their way, you will always end up with something absolutely, insanely amazing. You just gotta keep a reaaaaaaly open mind to see the beauty of what they do. Humans display their best qualities in two ways:
When under very harsh conditions.
And when they have a vision and enough freedom to follow it.
Not everyone has a good quality to display though.
But I must conclude that you are asking because of the people willingly carrying the disease? Well, it exists in reality too. It's called bioterrorism. No different than your regular bombings, just a lot more subtle. The people who do that are just as reprehensible.
5213007
The C.D.C actually studied what happened in W.O.W because it accounted for Human error. Some people tried flagging themselves to show they had the virus, others wanted to spread it, cities became graveyards and survivors fled to villages in the servers. it was a way to study what would happen, the only other way would be to release a disease into a society, which is one of the most morally bankrupt things you could do, a crime against humanity (if it isn't it should be.) This phenomenon was a boon to research and preparation.
Once again, very true
5213476
Huh, I bet those trolls are really proud of themselves right about now. They did science!
5213492
Yeah, in the most unlikely of things, W.O.W and the players wound up being a case of study for handling pandemics