I have missed having the freedom to get on a plane to go to the ocean.
Hike in my favorite trails in Sedona.
Visit my dad in Greece for his 80th birthday last weekend.
I was supposed to be there.
It reminds me of how life used to be before we had cars and planes.
Even though humans were hunters and gatherers, they did take shelter in caves and dwellings. Just like we are taking shelter right now.
I like to go to the future and look back and wonder what archeologists would say about our times.
Would they be able to see why we suddenly stopped being on the move?
Would they be able to tell that all of a sudden we spent a lot more time inside our homes.
I wonder how we would ultimately evolve.
Did you know that 9,000 years ago, Neolithic people lived in mud-brick houses, packed closely together?
Each house could only be entered by holes on the roof.
They made platforms for sleeping and ovens for baking bread.
And guess what.
People would visit each other by walking across their roofs.
Then they would build levels on top of their home for their kids and their families.
As many as 16 levels of housing.
Before that around 11,000 years ago in Northeastern England climate change made the temperature fall.
People had to change their way of life and build their homes differently so they could survive.
If we go forward into the future by thousands of years archaeologists would see how we went back to our human nature of baking bread, living in pods gathered in the same dwelling together.
Looking at myself and the world from the future helps me quiet down the anger and see the evolution as I try to wonder where we are heading.
How will we change?
How will we build homes to protect us from viruses, climate and even the cruelty we see.
I trust that we will survive more wars, future climate change, viruses and evolve into a new settlement.
Maybe we won’t build doors on the top of our roofs like the Neolithic people did, but we may find our way to be at peace in our homes.
I wish I could see a thousand years into the future.
I bet we will build new settlements on Mars, archaeologists will still be digging earth to teach Martian kids about us and how we didn’t have the means to protect our biological life from the virus.
How we didn’t want to wear a cloth mask.
How we took for granted the blue oceans, and animals.
The blue sky and breathing fresh air.
How we fought each other because of the different colors of our skin.
And how we complained about making bread with each other for too long.
I am grateful to be human and part of this time. (Click to tweet!)
With masks and caves,
Christina
P.S. Make sure you listen to this week’s Dear Life podcast, it is a real treat.
