THE STREETS BACK TO NORMAL

WE are neck deep battling coronavirus, we have seen laws being implemented for ‘our safety’ and to overall conquer the war. Amidst all of this, one thing struck me, that the streets are packed, and life is as we know it outside, despite the unwavering fact that the virus is still out there and anyone stands to get infected. This has undoubtedly not kept the people indoors… but the question remains as why?

The best place to start is the beginning, from Adam and Eve, when Eden was their haven. I was enlightened by the fact that a man at the capacity to speak to God daily still disobeyed.

The point we are driving to is, at that time there was a law set for his own protection, one that stood to threaten their lives if they failed to comply, and yet it was not enough reason, because despite knowing that the repercussions of failing to obey not to eat the one fruit was death as Genesis 2 vs 16 to 17 quotes – they still ate the fruit.

Defiance

Now this is to show that the nature of a human in their creation consists of defiance despite the consequences of doing so. The one thing we were graced with is the power of choice, to make our own decisions known, or unknown to the aftermath of those decisions. It is also for the same reason that a person cannot be controlled willingly in their nature. They can be influenced but not controlled.

Presentation

To answer the why, we have seen our government to be the smartest student in class during a presentation, standing before the students with a slideshow of promises and assistance from food parcels and the lot during this pandemic. Knowingly so, people have needs and those needs come before anything, hence our government created laws and regulations as means to stir the ship from sinking in the situation the world is faced with.

To do so successively, they set themselves to ensure that everyone’s needs would still be met and the glamourised dream did not come to pass and so, as anticipated, the masses would rebel. You cannot tell a hungry man not to look for food when you will not provide them with that food, nor can you influence one because a hungry man is an angry man.

When a person’s needs are compromised, they are most likely to defy whatever odds that stand to compromise them. 
Furthermore, life is not just black and white, therein lies all the answers to why within our nature, the biggest one being needs, we have the instinct emotional need for survival. To find purpose and to pursue it, and one cannot find that in confinement. The masses have created purpose in their lives, something to wake up and look forward to, the one thing that creates a spark, which gives them hope each day.

Waking up to go to work, the responsibility to provide - being a breadwinner, the pay cheque that comes month end despite how small it is. These small things met the need to be useful in society, to play a role and to bring something home even if it meant waking up to go and sell fruits, it still served their innate need and now they are suddenly told to stay home.

That need is no longer being served, it is replaced by a void now and at the slightest opportunity to make ends meet or be resourceful they leave home in search for that one thing that will meet the need. It is the need that is not met that advocates for disobedience even if it compromises their health.

Freedom

Innately, people also have the need for freedom. We were created with freedom. A good friend of mine noted that ‘had God not put the tree of knowledge in the garden, Adam would not have had freedom to begin with’. It is the ability to choose that creates freedom; you cannot take away a person’s freedom and fail to serve their needs and believe that if death is the possible outcome of going against the law you have set, they will abide.

The need is far greater than the fear to die. Ultimately a person is like a child, if you tell them not to do something, you have planted a seed of defiance to see if they go against it, what will come to pass.

We have ruthlessly been promised many things by government and it has failed to deliver, and inevitably the masses have chosen they would rather die of coronavirus than to die of hunger.

They have chosen that their needs come first, before any laws put up ‘to protect them’. Government failed to implement solutions for the problem, therefore as a result, society decided that then there is no problem if there is no solution; all is normal.

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