Social Distincting

My cousin’s next-door-neighbor, who is 5, calls this behavior we’re all engaged in, where we keep distance from one another, “social distincting.” When I heard this last night, I just knew that it needed to be a song. And then, the more I thought about what it could really mean, the more I really liked it.

We do strive an awful lot in our society to be a certain way and attain certain things. I’ve found it so telling – and unsettling – that it’s those with a lot of money, generally made from sports and/or entertainment, who are praised for coming to the rescue now. They’re able to secure face masks and get testing centers set up (not to mention, get tested) and provide needed goods to communities and hospitals and nursing homes. These are, in and of themselves, of course, good things, but it leaves me wondering why it’s celebrities who have the means to do these things rather than our governments and/or healthcare systems.

But this is what we’ve got, because this is what we value as a society. Maybe it’s time we reprioritize and aspire to some different goals. Anyway, it’s these thoughts – and the wisdom of a 5-year old – that helped me come up with this song.