How Covid-19 has changed my belief system

Previously, driven by my inherently self-centered, self-serving, self-justing and subjective nature I believed in myself.

I thought I had free choice, I could control my fate if I worked hard enough and kept the rules of society.

Covid-19 - more than anything before - showed us how much we have evolved into a globally integrated system where we all fully depends on each other and we are all totally responsible for each other and for the whole system.

As a result now I don’t believe in myself, I don’t believe that I can control my fate.

Instead I believe in mutual responsibility and in the power of positive, purposefully and methodically built, mutually supportive and mutually complement interconnections.

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I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.