When the s.. hit the f...

Nothing is as it was before. We have all been living at home for weeks now. Normally actually - and yet completely different. We are there for almost 24 hours—many of us. Alone, in pairs, or in groups. It is so familiar, and yet it feels strange.

Whenever information comes through the Internet, radio, or television, security suddenly mixes with uncertainty: what is it? What will become of us? How does it go on? We cannot plan. Nothing has ever been the way it is now. Our brains cannot fall back on simple strategies. It's shredded because it's not what it's supposed to be around us.

We sit there and have to endure, not being sure, not being able to plan. Things are the way they are. But we can also notice how neighbors help each other. People who clap for others, who laugh and suddenly look at each other as they walk past.

Air that smells better, silence - and nature that recovers. There is no such thing as impossible - this widespread mentality makes it difficult to deal with the demands of life. Already in the last year, it started to get complicated. Shortly after one another, severe cases in the environment, changes in the job, and in politics, you could feel weak and upset. And then everyone started to know the word corona, the crisis hit the world.

We are in the middle of this crisis as I write this text. Suddenly I can see how many are no longer in the office, and the social and public life is broke, and worries about the economic consequences of the crisis are increasing. How to cope with these problems, these burdens? At the same time, it is a chance to learn to be more relaxed in dealing with such an unprecedented crisis situation?

Accept what is and find peace. As soon as things do not develop as we wish, we start to fight and struggle. We get upset, scared, and doubt ourselves. But how to deal with impositions and difficult phases more relaxed. Going the way of the stoic.

I, fortunately, could exercise some photography projects in the old town of Hamburg for a short reprieve from Manila.