lockdown in the south of europe

Brandy was driving a boat when I met him. He opens the eyes for the beauty, has a wonderful soul, eats nuts and sings songs for birds. This man is magic. But what in times of crisis?
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Can you be yourself?
I'm a million different people from one day to the next.

Who do you think you are?
(it´s just another way to ask you: who are you)?
An expression/manifestation of the universe/nature. Stardust puzzled together by "life" to create a sentient conscious being who is in an evolutionary state of accepting and moving past the egoic phase. A neuron in the one big brain that is humanity. A leaf on the tree of life. One blade of grass upon a windy plain.

Where do you answer these questions?
Somewhere in a forrest mountain region in southern Europe.

Is your place in lockdown?
Officially yes

What do you do during the day?
Pretty much the same as other days.
Wake up whenever I awake, no clocks. Eat fruits and muesli, leave a gift in the compost toilet, have a bath in the icecold river, work on the land, gardening, planting trees, destroying invasive freak trees like eucalyptus, restauring an old caravan, cutting tipi poles, brushing the donkey, walking, going into town for laundry and good real food from a local biofarmer and also to see people with masks and the police driving around with loudspeakers "stay at home"... Playing a lot of music, piano, guitar, flute, singing. Eating beautiful meals with my partner, mostly vegetables with more vegetables, almost no animal products because I saw some documentary called "What the health?" that really made me think twice before putting that stuff in my body. Reading and meditation is also often part of my daily routines. Not to much cyberspace and crap that destractes like alcohol.

What are the changes in your daily lifestyle?
Not a lot really, well maybe some, I might have been working on a job for a while, but this just moved to some later moment I guess. And also a feeling of my freedom of movement being taken away.

Can you eat what and when you want?
Yes mostly, except for the restaurants being closed.

Did you loose any familymember, friend due to this Corona-virus?
No, I also think it's unlikely. If out of millions a couple of hundreds (thousands?) die and most of those are 80+, previously sick etc. Many would have died anyways by flue, hospital bacteria, age etc. Now they die with corona not always because of. Last year's influenza pandemic took about 25000 lives, no global panic, no authoritarianism imposed on civilians. In reality a lot more people have the virus than the statistics know of, making the actual mortality rate a lot lower, more like the flue.

Do you have a message to the world?
Where to start...
Hakunamatata. We're all terminal. Life is very temporary. Listen to Alan Watts. Sing, dance and meditate. Observe yourself. You're not as important as you want to believe, even if you're Julius Caesar the dust of time will erase you. You are not the same as you were 10 years ago, even if you still live in 10 years the you that you consider to be you right now will be somebody else, even physically all your atoms and cells will be different. No money or power in this world can truly satisfy you, it can't even guarantee that you are still there tomorrow nor whatever and whoever you hold dear. Go through fears rather than avoid them. Fear or love. There is an natureforce intelligence that can change food into the body you inhabit, create such wonders like every little detail you see around you every second of your life, it's ok to trust in it, it is far more "intelligent" than our monkey brains can even grasp at.

Is there a song you will associate with this time?
Imagine by John Lennon.
He was killed in mysterious circumstances at a time when he was becoming more politically active, influencing millions of people with his music.

There is an interesting phrase in "Redemption song" by Bob Marley:
​"How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?".

How do you see the world one year from now. Easter 2021?
Hmm who knows what the future brings, the past can give us a lot of hints, but there are infinite variables to take into account, maybe computers are better at this, predicting mass behaviours. Hopefully something beautiful blossoms.