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Action Is The Best Remedy: 9 Things You Can Do Right Now To Take More Control Over Your Life
Lucie Aubrac, 2nd world war resistance heroine, saboteur, fighter, mother, wife lived by these words ‘action is the best remedy’. When her chips were down, and she risked losing her entire world to the Nazi’s, this was still her philosophy.
Action is the Best Remedy.
It’s true. As countries feel the devastation of COV-19 and their lives and businesses go on hold, this advice is as relevant now as it was 80 years ago.
Things could, and probably will be worse.
What should we do? Wallow and accept our powerlessness? Should we allow fear and self-interest to dictate our behaviour in response to the virus and other global setbacks?
Hell no, we can’t. We walked on the moon; we created antibiotics and cancer treatments; we built the internet (warts and all0. We can’t respond with a downturn in our humanity. It’s the responsibility of all decent human beings not to allow ourselves or society to implode. Or, if it has already to take action to bring it back together.
Forget greater good for a moment, what positive effect comes out of you becoming suspended with fear and despair? Nothing.
