Is it ignorant of us to look at small, positive things when a global pandemic is going on? Maybe it’s more acceptable to talk about the latter because it helps us relieve our anxiety by joining the panicked crowds. If we focus on the bad, we don’t have to change how we’ve always done things; instead, we should follow what everyone else is doing and feeling. We buy stuff because others believe it. We feel our spirits dampen because everyone else’s is too. We feel more connected to others because we think we feel similarly. But this is an illusion.

To think differently from the crowd requires us to be more accountable to our emotions and logic. Yes, things seem wrong, and rightfully so. But do our actions contribute to improving things or just joining everyone else in the hysteria? Solutions are found by thinking differently from the crowds where the problems emerge, and this begins by looking at the positive things that people easily ignore. 

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