Renaissance man

I hear people saying they are bored or feeling trapped because they must shelter in place and while I know this is not easy there are things to be learned.

We have an entire generation who equates living with running around from one place to another, eating out, competing, trying to impress our peers and please our bosses. And while it is good to be fit and social, the world did not get where it is by people doing only that.

In the past the people who frenetically worked day in and day out were the serfs, the peasants, the factory workers whose children began work at eight years old and expected to spend the rest of their lives trying to survive by running from work to home and trying to please their "betters."

The more fortunate ones had time to read and study, paint, create, write poetry and plays, invent things, discover scientific wonders and maybe live comfortably, sleeping and eating at will.

Libraries are closed, but many of us have the internet and computers. We have places to live comfortably and are blessed to be relatively healthy right now. Let's take advantage of that and thrive where we are.

Protagoras said, "Man is the measure of all things."

Become the new Renaissance person.