In this time of COVID, I feel that a lot of people are asking this question. Just about everyone is saying “yes”, but that it will be very different from how things have been in the past.
Here is my answer:
‘We have to. There is no other way or other option. If we don’t, we stop being human.’ Two of the key human traits is exploration and curiosity. We’ve done it for thousands, if not millions of years. Without them, we would have never progressed. Even St. Augustine, someone who lived in the 300s, said “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” If we let this disease control us and stop our exploratory instincts, we are doomed. In fact, our exploratory predilections are the o