The writing is on the wall. Chronic disease has devastated our healthcare system, and neither practitioners, patients, nor society at large can escape the effects. If we don’t intervene, the situation will only get worse.
Will you answer the call?
There may be a million reasons why you feel now is not the time to take the leap, or why you might not be the right person or in the best position to take this on. I hear you, and I’ve been there myself.
But there’s an old Zen story that has always inspired me in times of uncertainty or self-doubt. One day an old Tenzo (head cook) was washing rice in the temple courtyard in the heat of the mid-day sun. A young monk approached him and asked, “Tenzo, why are you washing rice in this heat? Shouldn’t a younger, less experienced monk be doing this kind of work?” The old Tenzo replied, “If not now, when? If not me, who?”
So, given the challenges we face and the dire need for people to join the fight, I’ll pose the same question:
If not now, when? If not you, who?