Are you okay?

It’s funny how it took a global pandemic to finally ask every person you come across if they’re okay. We now prolong our introductions and hellos; feeling somewhat ashamed of the remainder of the business conversation or request when we all feel the same way. The uncertainty that has us all anxious – making us a little more human.

Preoccupied with our own little worlds, we forgot that everyone went through their own thing, too. Only now, we realize it because we’re all going through it together. Your sorrows, fears, hopes and dreams.. they’re everyone else’s, too.

Looking at the world from a skyscraper never felt so surreal. Tiny little roads with tiny cars and even tinier people in them. It’s so hard to realize that we’re all exactly alike in how small we are. It’s humbling and sad at the same time.

I have hopes and dreams and scenarios in my mind of my future life. A grand life. So do you. So do they!

It becomes clearer and clearer that, in the end, what you truly care about probably isn’t that fancy car and that big mansion. It’s probably the people and dreams that you’re just terrified will slip away.

I’m probably not that okay, but that won’t stop me from asking everyone else: Are you okay?