As I read my paper this morning with all the cancellations going around the United States and abroad, the day has come for all of us humans to do some deep thinking, creative thinking and just plain getting down to basics.
What are the basics, you ask? Well, I thought a long time ago that the smallest thing on the planet will destroy all humans on the planet and history does repeat itself. Also, I have told my kids and grandkids that they will have to learn to live like my grandparents did a long time ago.
Even in the early 1900s, I am pretty sure there were more important things that my grandparents had to worry about, but they survived with just simple basic living that gave our third generation here a very comfortable life. A job, a house was priority No. 1. Then of course food to survive but they did not kill no bats, mongoose, owls and those precious exotic animals that some people think they are delicacies today. They had no experience of restaurants then.
Next came the clothing they could get without stores, but they kept everything and washed with soap and water that they had to have filled up with rain water and not rely on companies that bring it to our face. Electricity was a luxury with one light bulb and probably with whatever wire there was. Telephone was not there but who wanted to connect to the whole wide world when only the important ones is what you wanted to hear from. Usually the information was the truth because just a few people lied over here or we just were not too smart to have the criminal minds of smart people.
Toilet paper was not there too, we used our creative thinking of whatever felt soft and a military person even showed us how it was done with just one square piece of toilet paper, which sounded like a joke but make some sense for sure now.
Anyway, I know for a fact that we must all be on guard. Even my granddaughter who just had a baby won’t let nobody near that child and I don’t blame her for that. But panic is the fear that is behind all of this headlines now. Is there anyway our front page can be the second page and fill us with good thoughts instead of fear and panic?
Now that there will be a lot of people out of jobs and the economy might be looking like the early 1900s, I would definitely like to see if the big companies like the banks, insurance companies, health companies, electric companies, and basically all those that control our lives give us some breathing room so we don’t lose our houses, get sick more, eat and live like our ancestors did at least.
Here on the islands, we may have more control since we are isolated in the middle of the grand Pacific. But our government people, the wise ones, please be “akamai” for the people. We demand of you that history does not repeat itself when Captain Cook landed here a long time ago who brought guns and disease that took care of a whole bunch of people then.
Just my thoughts that I feel might give people some reassurance in the wise, rich people, no sense look at us “Last of the Mohicans of Holualoa.”
Carol Zakahi is a resident of Kona.