"Resilience", by Erik Pevernagie, Oil on canvas, (100 x 80 cm)

If we feel like deers in headlights, let us tread lightly, back up for some time, and rebound later while building on our desire to empower our backbone and guts, restore our identity and kindle our fury of living.

With her knee in our neck, the goddess of the pandemics may have paralyzed us and hindered many from breathing freely and consciously. Only if we discover the timelessness of the moment, we may happen to encounter the blue sky in our mind and fly high into the light of happy expectations.

Many may find themselves confronting a new reality, while some feel themselves facing scary circumstances. They have to reconsider their life or start from scratch as unexpected occurrences are unsettling them,

Therefore, let us not hesitate to say a blunt "No" when push comes to shove. Once we handle the truth, it must be without "ifs" and "buts." We need clean air and clear water. Since haggling with transparency is not in the cards, let us step down from the traditional "It Is What It Is" and definitively go for resilience.

In discovering the world, the "I" must meet otherness and converge with the "we." If we are ready to leave our castle's safety, we can confront our sensitiveness with "outwardness," enhance our insight, and tune-up our life pattern.

A universal vision and a joint interest are steppingstones for full-blown empathy. It is explicitly through empathy that we seize the pulsating assets of 'sharing,' sharing precious values with others.