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I fully agree with what my friend Nanuq says ... It is necessary to consider that the human nature itself is fragile, but when one is aware of what is happening to us, one must be stubborn and implement the suggestions that Nanuq has indicated. Great Thanks.

Hey brother I'm right there with you. To my feeble way of thinking I blame most of this not on Covid, but in what was done to us using Covid as an excuse. We've been lied to, we've been intentionally misled, we've been hyped up, we've been ridiculed, we've been called troglodytes for failing to "follow the science", when no two scientific bodies can agree on what the "science" even is, and we've ridiculed our brothers for wanting to have opinions different than ours. This last year and a half has torn families apart, it's torn deep friendships apart, it's torn apart the national pride and sense of trust that many of us hold dear. It has shaken us to our core and we are now divided. Left refuses to talk to right, red hates blue, country hates city, up hates down, in hates out ... we have been masterfully divided into smaller and smaller groups, and pitted against each other. Social media has become a cancer on society as we stand back and hurl anonymous rocks at our neighbors. We can now justify animosity toward "the other guys" because dammit, they hurt me or said bad things about me and I'm just not going to take it anymore. So we justify our behavior. What did Bill Maher call it the other day? The "dorm room bitch session" the internet has become? He's right. We are so focused on the meaningless minutia that we've lost sight of what matters. It's hard to feel admiration for the long, sensual beauty of the lugs on a Big Crown. It just feels... wrong. Superficial. Our minds are spinning with the latest statistics or the latest "facts" or the latest talking points or the latest news... looking for anything to justify our anger. Raw beauty is covered up with the dust of a crumbling society. Our attention is in all the wrong places and it's eating us up from the inside. Sure, a Lamborghini is enough of a sensual hit that it breaks through the fog for awhile. But a guilloche dial? Too easy to skip over. So what do we do? #1 - Turn off the damn TV. Quit visiting the political websites. STOP IT. Their goal is to make you angry enough that you'll click on headlines and satisfy your hunger for more adrenaline. It's all clickbait and they are spinning you up. They have you hooked. STOP. #2 - Go outside and play. Leave your phone home. That's right. Put it away. You'll live. See if you can turn it off and leave it off for 24 hours. Find a place and sit down and just look. Be still. Listen. Smell. FEEL. Do it for an hour. It's a lot harder than you think. Try writing down what you experienced at the end of the hour. See how much you can recall. #3 - Find another living being and share an afternoon with them/it. Take your dog for a walk, some place HE wants to go. Try to be as pure and simple and enthusiastic and "in the moment" as he is. Take your best friend or wife or someone special and go do something new with them. See them in your surroundings with new eyes. Smell. Listen. FEEL. Take it all in. #4 - Do something kind for someone else. Do it so they'll never find out it was you. As you're doing this kind thing, plaster a big dumb smile on your face and keep it there whether you feel like it or not. You'll discover the smile will make you happy, not the other way around. It always works, get in the habit. #5 - Pray. Meditate. Close off your distractions and spend half an hour with your "higher power", whomever you like to think that is. Express gratitude for how good your life is. Think of your friends and think something positive about each of them, and give thanks for each one. Feel gratitude. Speak thanks. There are lots more good steps I could list, but these are the biggies for me. They help keep the important things important, and push the nagging irritations to the back. They shut down the noise in your head and let you just .......... be. Pretty soon you'll start to treasure that sense of peace and it will slowly become important to you again. And when it does, simplicity and appreciation for simple beauty will follow. You'll realize your focus has shifted completely away from the craziness in the world, you'll appreciate leaving your phone at home when you go out, and you will have broken the hold this frantic world had on you. Be an oasis. Welcome people into your small, calm world. Refuse to react. Smile. Feel gratitude.