Lockdown Vampires
I've brought the lockdown story to a halt. This was partly because I was returned to work after only a month and two weeks of furlough and therefore my spare time was best spent on my second 'Sisters of Annis' book. It was also because writing in the first person isn't my preferred perspective. Vampire's Key is a third person story.
I may return to The Lockdown Vampires in the future, I don't know. I've had some positive feedback but if I am going to write, I should put my limited time to better use.
Limited Time
Limited time is an appropriate phrase for the current hysterical, paranoid, fractured environment and time we inhabit. With the new and improved virus now out and about, lurking in bodies and haunting the air around us, who knows who will become possessed and how many they will infect?
My place of work (where I am coming up to my first year anniversary) have revealed how much of a sham the upper management are. Like many big organisations they hide behind big slogans and fancy ideas while risking their staff. It's a shame but I should have known. I am fifty and fucking cynical. I'd prefer to be fifty and fucking optimistic but I'm not.
Covid is only a Shadow
Covid is only a shadow. It is not the societal killer that some (the darker or more aware members of human society) hope for. It is an intimation of how easy it will be for the real deal to wipe us out.
Time is Limited, Death is Inevitable
With this in mind and sticking with my favourite, bestest, most loved meditation, time is limited, death is inevitable. Covid has potentially caused many to reflect on their mortality, on what they are doing with their life. Life is brief; a brief shot for some, a long cool pint for many, an all nighter for a lot of folk, but whatever slice of the pie you get, it all ends equally: a coffin shaped hole in the ground.
That's sad. Heart-breakingly sad. The gift of life, as the Buddhists assert, is precious and not to be wasted. The only question that remains is what to do with your time?
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