Train to a better world

There is such a nice internet meme. A little boy stands on the platform and asks the railwayman: - Sir, from which platform does the train to a better world leave? - There is no such world - replies the railwayman. Be better, the world will be better.

Our times are wasted, but whatever you may say, in some industries, especially in healthcare, there is no better time or a better world. Too little money, too few places, too many sick people. By nature, disease, death, fear and helplessness are part of the industry. Even if everything is relatively stable, it is not stable. Only in the last thirty years we had the "plague of the twentieth century", Ebola, swine flu, a pandemic (still present) and when it seemed that in 2022 we would be struggling "only" with inflation and a new order, war broke out in Ukraine.

We are constructed in such a way that what was blurred, fades, disappears in the fog and seems not so bad at all. From communism, today we remember chewing gum balls, Pewex and academies that are funny from today's perspective. From the time of early capitalism, emerging opportunities, videotapes and parties, from the time of the HIV/AIDS peak, we do not remember the extreme feelings and fear it aroused. Not only that, even at the beginning of the pandemic, we remember how the family was at home and from today's perspective, we think that it was safe. Today the media pandemic has disappeared. As in the theory of money circulation - worse money displaces better money (if there are two money on the market with the same denomination, but one has more gold, it is replaced by the one with less metal), and in the media, worse information displaces better information.

Today we have a war in Ukraine. Paralyzing, terrifying. Nobody knows how to protect ourselves, so we stand in lines for a passport or gas, at an ATM or to buy foreign currency. If someone says that there is no yeast or rice, we recommend that you buy rice and yeast (I know those who have stocks from the beginning of the pandemic to this day). Everyone is doing what they can for tomorrow, and we often forget about today.

My grandmother survived revolutions, two world wars, various regimes, she lived to the times of the free market and knew that everything would pass, and a man would come out wiser from any oppression. The business cycle theory teaches that each crisis will flourish at a higher level than the previous one. The British taught to remain calm at critical moments.

Either way, there are no attraction to a better world at any time. A better world, even under the worst conditions, will be what we create it for ourselves. What kind of people will we be, how honestly we will pursue our humanity, and how we will look at each day. Even health protection, when viewed from the other side, has birth, joy, health, repair, rescue, life in it.

So what was will not come back, what will be will come, and what is, let's take and watch from the better side. Instead of being unproductive and destructively worrying, distributing unverified information - let's sit calmly for a moment, do our best for those who need us and our work, and smile at those who have been waiting for our smile for a long time. There is no attraction to a better world, it would be too easy. Being better, smarter ourselves, we are the smiths of a better world, although it is difficult.