With the outbreak of COVID-19, it seems that 2020 is not a perfect beginning of this decade. However, it doesn’t dim everything from then on. Just as Helen Keller put it, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” Many qualities need to be held in order to go through hard times, among which flexibility, from my perspective, should be spoken highly of.
What is flexibility if it doesn’t take the responsibilities to prevent us from collision? Internet, which proves to be vital in reconnection, fully embodies flexibility. It has opened a new gateway to offer hundreds of thousands of opportunities for humans getting back to the track, which serves as a satisfying substitutes under the circumstance where our-door activities and interactions are under strict control. For citizens around the world, ‘be happy to stay home’ is not simply an irony to bring comfort but is truly reaching out of its literal meaning. Want to improve? A great number of crash courses and educational videos are staying in Youtube just one click away. Want for entertainment? Game companies have made full use of every second in quarantine to make sure you never get bored. Can’t wait to stretch your body? Guidance of in-door exercises is at your service. It’s quite difficult to imagine what we can’t do at home with to help of profundly-respected network society despite this outbreak.
Flexibility also comes in the form of adaption. Having threatened tons of traditional jobs and leaded to global economy recessions, though, it do as well has significantly reshaped the patterns of the world, accelerated ceaseless modifications of markets in the future, from which catalyzed novel ideology and new technology to well up. For instance, being unable to trade offline strongly stimulates more comprehensive integration in online shopping. Becoming indoorsmen forces people to think out of the common sense that schooling has to take place at school, hence turn to seek for IMOOC or other network curriculums. What I have seen and been moved during the outbreak is that there are lots of individuals and organizations who choose to embrace changes instead of running away from it. They dare to transform and adjust, to fight and fail, and to reseize the opportunities and consequently manage to put off miracles.
Just in line with what Churchill has said, “to improve is to change, the be perfect is to change often”, such an unprecedented situation is virtually just a trial for us and set the stage for improvements in preparation for the future. As long as holding the key of flexibility in the pocket, we are able to live through extraordinary times, keep moving forward and afraid of nothing.