Fear has now become the new pandemic.
Though the Coronavirus will pass, will this newfound phobia pass as well? Is there a vaccine that can inoculate us from this new strain of Crazy?
How did we develop Runatoipia? (fear of running out of toilet paper)
Or Freathing? (fear of breathing )
Fears of all kinds are popping up as plentiful as new flavors in Baskin Robbins ice cream store.
“ And what can I get you miss,” asks the server behind the counter.
“Oh, I’ll just have a single scope of marshmallow mylife’sover, in a cup please.”
"Whose next? Can I help the next customer?"
“Sure, I’ll take a double scoop of strawberry suicide, and chocolate chipmypants in a sugar cone..”
“And for you,” asks the server again, “how can I help you?”
“So many to chose from….
stockmarketcrash crunch,…endoftheworld swirl…. I’ll just take a simple meltdown malt, if you please, and a quart of rocky road to go.”
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Such a medley of flavors which fear should we choose?
I have lost all my money in the stock market, and it will never come back.
I am surely going be one of the .002% to cash in my chips and buy the farm.
I need to buy a sleeping bag in preparation for being homeless.
My hairdresser will probably die and I will be ugly forever.
The trees will become an endangered species and we will never have toilet paper again.
Fears ad nauseam
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In safeguarding our lives from what if’s we have fenced in our freedoms for foreboding futures. Rather than living for today, we have cocooned our God-given liberties jeopardizing joy, happiness, adventure…Life
“Everyone is afraid of dying, I am afraid of not living.”
In choosing 31 flavors, I choose Joie de vivre with a cherry on top.
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Lisa Hamilton/ The Hamilton Post
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