Thanks for this great post.

I wrote back in July 2020, that Back is NOT the Way Forward (https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/back-is-not-the-way-forward-cb63f99da9e5)

"Back and normal are both problematic at the very least, if not downright undesirable.

Back is the past. Back is going in reverse. Back is clinging to comfort. Which is the reason why the word resilience bubbles to the top of leadership’s lexicon of change. Resilience is about bouncing back, meaning that there’s nothing bigger or better in store than what we’ve already seen in the past."

Normal is even more problematic because it seeks convenience over all else. The comfort zone is a dangerous place.

‘Normal’ IS the Problem

There’s no such thing as the new normal or next normal or any ‘normal’. In fact, ‘normal’ is what makes us keep choosing the convenient over the desirable. It also limits our thinking to what exists, and thereby stymies the scope of the opportunities before us.

Our fears, hopes and aspirations are firmly founded in the future. Part of the reason that people accumulate materials is to save for a “rainy day”, and this illusory safety-net ensnares them.

We have to let go of the future.

April Rinne, in her new book, FLUX, explains letting go of the future,

“letting go does not mean giving up or somehow failing. It is not surrender. It does mean letting go of our fears about the future, fears that hijack our brains and ability to function as our best selves. Relationships, sleep, mindfulness, and presence seem like great places to start.”