Appreciate the mundaneness
Recently I finished the book Station Eleven by Emily John Mandel. This book had depth and it beautifully depicts a post pandemic world where our civilisation faces a reset. No electricity, no planes, no cars, no fast food, no law and order and people who carry best and worst of the memories from the pre-pandemic world navigating a new life.
It made me wonder how much we take normal things for granted in day to day world. Imagine a day waking up in the dark without electricity, stoves don't work because the world ran out of gas.
You light up the fire to make coffee – which the world will run out of in few days because there is no one working.
You manage to boil the coffee, you don't have food in fridge, it's been a year since you saw a working refrigerator. You need to go out and hunt, you need to learn to preserve the meat so that you can store and eat for few days.
There is nothing on phone for you to scroll while having coffee, it's an artefact from the old world which belongs to a museum in this world.
You step out to hunt for food, well if you know how to hunt. You will have to worry about running into people in different forms and people with different intentions, you can never let your guard down when you are outside.
The world we live in is run by the society, people who work at midnight to clean the city streets, people who stock up goods at your local store, people who deliver those goods to that store or to your house. People making the buses, trains, airports and airplanes available to us on daily basis.
When everything resets the whole civilisation goes back the bottom most layer of Maslow's hierarchy – surviving. Appreciate the mundaneness.