Dinonyane on career, improving

is because as human-beings most of us protect ourselves from thinking that that kind of pain is something that you can never experience. In other words we are not open to the idea I’m experiencing such great pain because in our minds that is something that happens to other people.

do humans react the way they do?

In addition to part of one of my previous answers (which is that we almost convince ourselves that certain kinds of experiences are not designed for us), we are also generally not equipped to handle change. This I think comes from a young age where starting from birth we are put on a routine where things become a little bit expected. We see the evolution of life from childhood, adolescence, becoming a young adult etc.

Now these expectations mould us to think the world will never colour outside of the lines and in this time, the world has definitely coloured beyond the lines. So I think part of it is a combination of confusion, the lack of stability and the amount of unknown. This is such a foreign concept and absolutely nobody has a prediction on what the next day is going to look like.

We are in the midst of a pandemic and we are witnessing many different reactions from people as a result. Why