A Promising Future Found in the Simple Truths of Death

COVID-19: an excellent catalyst for unparalleled awakening

Tiffany W. Liu
11 min readMay 18, 2020

When Common Sense is No Longer Sensible

You don’t need to see different things, but rather to see things differently - Lama Surya Das

COVID-19 turned our sense of reality upside down. Things don’t make that much sense anymore. Nowadays, distance is love. Separation is safety. Hugs are risks. Kisses are deadly. Basics are valuable. Luxuries are non-essential. Homes are prisons. Masks are signs of trust. Time is long, and normal is desirable. The previously common concepts we have acquired from our perpetual experience no longer are valid.

Pandemics brings with it a vivid awareness of how fast we can all perish. As disease rage, the immediacy of mortality almost always fan the flames of transformational change. From Black Death to HIV/AIDs, history’s deadliest pandemic have all reshaped societies in profound ways. During this time, hundreds of millions of people have passed, empires have fallen, and governments have cracked. COVID-19 disease is no different. According to Dr. Anthony Facui and top government experts, the modeling predicts U.S. deaths to reach 240,000 potentially. As modern history’s deadliest pandemic, there is no doubt COVID-19 will remake…

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Tiffany W. Liu

Former Fortune 50 exec now devoting mind, heart, and life in service to championing compassion @SoulSeatedJourney @TzuChiFoundation