Effect
4/14/2020
What is an effect?
It’s something we hope for, it’s a result, it’s a consequence. Our actions seem to have no effect in the world, but the truth is not so. As humans, we can be remarkably shortsighted. Sometimes, I just can’t imagine a simple action reverberating on anyone. Perhaps actions mean little when it’s just one person. But when one person multiplies into several hundred times that, we can see the effect of it. The effect is clear for everyone to see, and it can be devastating.
Have you been to a supermarket recently? Perhaps not, because of the risk. So let me tell you what the effect of humanity has been, at least there.
Emptiness.
Oh, there are still some things. The shelves aren’t completely empty, but there is never quite enough now. The days that we are living in aren’t quite an apocalypse, but humans are fearful. Fear isn’t rational, and the effects are everywhere. How much toilet paper do we really use in a week? How much water, how many paper towels?
The answer- not much.
Fear’s effect has begun to slow down. In time, we will realize that the effect was multiplied by our own standards and our own brains warping the problem. In time, we will realize how much worse we made the effect.
What is an effect?
It’s something we hope for, it’s a result, it’s a consequence. Our actions seem to have no effect in the world, but the truth is not so. As humans, we can be remarkably shortsighted. Sometimes, I just can’t imagine a simple action reverberating on anyone. Perhaps actions mean little when it’s just one person. But when one person multiplies into several hundred times that, we can see the effect of it. The effect is clear for everyone to see, and it can be devastating.
Have you been to a supermarket recently? Perhaps not, because of the risk. So let me tell you what the effect of humanity has been, at least there.
Emptiness.
Oh, there are still some things. The shelves aren’t completely empty, but there is never quite enough now. The days that we are living in aren’t quite an apocalypse, but humans are fearful. Fear isn’t rational, and the effects are everywhere. How much toilet paper do we really use in a week? How much water, how many paper towels?
The answer- not much.
Fear’s effect has begun to slow down. In time, we will realize that the effect was multiplied by our own standards and our own brains warping the problem. In time, we will realize how much worse we made the effect.
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