Art work by BinchCity.

Written Leila Antakly

Corona Virus has been the wake up call the world needed. Our planet, our ways, our failed systems in place can no longer run their course at the pace we were going.

Most of us are being put in a situation forced to re evaluate our lives, our individual impact, question our "world leaders", our dependency on technology, our relationships, our attitude towards the environment, our values and the failures of the system.

I hope that the positive outcome from these crazy times, leads us to a real long term positive change and not a return to the 'normalcy' as we know it. We are about to experience one of the biggest economic experiments in human history and nobody has a clue what’s about to happen. I hope this teaches us to be more humble, united, kind, supportive, optimistic and take a step back to appreciate what truly matters. This is time for reflection, for change.

I believe that the change begins with us ourselves, and that united in our beliefs we can demand a change because our planet is giving us a second chance here to get things right. The uncertainty will affect us all, and only the ones willing to adapt quick to change, to innovate quickly will be able to handle the newness of it all. Sure there will be plenty of conspiracy theories in the coming months, but it won’t matter because one things holds true, we’ve brought this on to ourselves. Never has it been more clear that we disrespected the natural world. Everything needs to be re -evaluated, our policies, our politics, leaders, attitudes towards others, wealth gaps, injustice, racism, etc the system has failed, and its not going to be an easy road ahead. if we get this right now we might have a chance to become a happier, healthier, safe, loving and more just world, maybe just maybe 2020 will be our most important year. 🌍💞