Sawubona. I see you.

WFH (Working From Home), is not easy as a paradigm shift. Yet its becoming the next stage in our human evolution, and as we are now getting into the reality of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Let me explain.

You have to figure out a coping mechanism. Because social distancing and the absence of a social life is not natural for humans.

Its imprisonment. And you get mentally disabled if such connective disonation from other people is enforced for long periods of time, as has been from the lockdowns.

My one coping mechanism is in going through my photographic memory library of human connections that I used to have and that I have retained since 2007.

Perusing through that library/archive keeps me sane as I remember my people, the smiles and the incidents and events that were captured at that moment in time.

There is nuanced mementos and recollection of time and places tucked away in those photos. And motivation to carry on is the intended outcome.

Sawubona. Thats a greeting in isiZulu and related Nguni dialects. It means I see you, and I recognise you and you are in front of me and I embrace your presence. I see God in you.

Its simple and yet so full as a greeting. Its culture and its cultural and its cultured. Sometimes in WFH culture, that habit has gone missing. We are disconnected over Zoom and MS Teams.

The human condition is for socialism and communism. Humans are social animals. We are not meant to be caged and isolated.

So we become wild animals when we are distant and away from each other. Social distancing is not natural for us. Not hugging or kissing or holding hands and shaking hands is not natural to us. It breaks our human condition.

So, to keep healthy and alive, we have to reignite the memory of our human connections, the time when we were free to be together.

Because the psychology of being distanced from each other creates physical ailments. And some of these cannot be treated medically, they are mind over matter and over the physical.

And so the mind itself can heal such ailments because it has to release the necessary endorphins that give healing over the physical.

And you wont get such treatment via a pill or medicine with a chemical active ingredient. The healing is the body itself healing itself and telling itself that it will be alright.

The body releases its own placebo. It lies to itself. The mind is that active ingredient and it knows its own chemicals.

And thats the humanity that God created, the human body is a miracle of love and it is created out of love (generational love-making). God created the first of us out of love and that love has carried on from the source.

The miracle of life is love. Its incredible once you start to understand that. Because God is love, and right now the world needs more love, and by extrapolation, the world needs more of God. Lets love each other despite the distance.

Because God loves us, still.

Thats the message fam.