What Have You Learned from COVID-19?

Sometimes adversity is our biggest and best teacher

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Yes, COVID-19 sucks. Big time. More than 6.6 million people have died from it. Perhaps one of them was your mother, father, or friend. You loved them. They loved you. But they are no longer here. They are not reading this article. YOU are. And I am very glad you are because there’s a good chance you still have something to learn from the whole pandemic experience — something life-changing.

Me, too.

If COVID-19 was a box of Crackerjacks, there’s a prize inside of it. This might sound like New Age dribble, but stay with me for a moment. The fact is: human beings often grow the most from adversity.

Or as Albert Einstein once put it, “Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

Whatever fairy tale you were living before COVID came to town went through some major plot twists, didn’t it? Life as you knew it changed. Shit hit the fan. Then some more shit. And probably, at least a few times, the fan stopped spinning altogether. Or you found yourself madly cleaning the fan with yet another bottle of hand sanitizer.

That’s just the way life is sometimes, eh?

Yup. Every fairy tale has its villain — the massive obstacle in the hero’s way. Luke Skywalker had…