I don’t recall a time when everyone in the world experienced such global uncertainty. A global pandemic, the death of loved ones, economic crises, that along with the political insecurity in several places around the globe.
It’s been a tough year on us all, and who would believe that it’s half gone already! We’re tired of social distancing and the feeling that we and everyone around us is somehow leprous. We long for life to go back to normal… or at least have some idea when it will go back to normal. As I sat at my desk, my thoughts wandered back to those “good old days” and it felt like I was stuck in a nightmare with no foreseeable end. It was then that the words of a fictional character who also thought he was stuck in a bad dream and awoke to a different reality rung in my ears,
“Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?” cried Sam.
The Lord of the Rings, Book 6, Chapter 4
Is everything sad going to come untrue? Can this be true beyond the scope of fictional stories- albeit brilliant- and children’s happily-ever-after fairy tales?