I am indicted by this particular little film. Ostensibly, the woman featured is talking about the pandemic, but really she's talking about something far more subtle, more essential, more crucial. The human heart. She talks about opening the heart. But the pandemic, and life within the pandemic, isolates one. Your heart shuts down, it doesn't open up. My heart has shut down for the most part over the past year. There is no opportunity to open it. One is alone. It gives me pause for thought. I've always been alone most of my life but life was such that I could live with the illusion that I wasn't. I'm more alone now than ever. Is it enough, to be alone? I read Chinese hermit poetry but who can really live that kind of life? Could you? Can I? Why would we want to?
This film posits the idea that collectively, our hearts are opening. I don't see it. I don't see it in the world at large and I don't see it within myself. But maybe -- maybe the speaker is right. There is a little voice inside that tells me to shut up and start listening. So I'm going to try that, although I'm not sure how.
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