The Maverick#59: Defying the Usual to Inspire & Connect

Different times, difficult terrain and a defiant adversary; it's time to  toughen up and get ready for a face off, more with the fear inside than the virus. What you choose from these timeless insights will decide where you will be a year from now. The World is no longer the same. A new normal has kicked in. Prologue to pandemic has faded and has left us bewildered and clueless. Rough patches lie ahead, we all know that. Best we can do is to survive through the remaining chapters. As we live out a different life each day, we struggle to catch up with the answers to many things, unsure and hapless. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending -Maria Robinson. I had hung my boots a year ago. It took me a while before   I could decide to set about rediscovering my life, learn about so many things, discover how to be creative and productive, be useful, self manage and to be mindful of all that that happens...

Stuck between social fatigue and social dismay, a restless world waits out the pandemic, leaning hard on an overwhelmed healthcare system.   With virus more likely to reactivate rather than re-infect, any anti science attitude will only push the nail harder and hurt deep.   I t suddenly leaped to my face and hissed; “You will never be able to get rid of me… I will see to it that you rot in pain, misery and die a horrifying death all alone … you scum”!!… The spines all over its body looked familiar. I peered closely and drew in sharply. The shiny spines looked more like okra pods split in half and stuck all over its body. It looked messy. The hideous creepy little creature then lunged towards me. Startled, I ran out of the room into the bushes outside. Numbing fear pumped adrenaline hard. I ran as fast as I could . It was a dark moonless night and felt ominous as if the end was near. I stumbled, fell hard and hit my head. And I woke up. My heart was pounding...