When things are spiraling out of control, and the world as we know it feels like it’s on its way to a sudden and definitive end, we have a couple of options.

The first is to turn inward, close ourselves off and view the actions of everyone else with suspicion, pointing fingers and casting blame.

Fear can justify our instinct to hoard, to become greedy, to look out for ourselves at the expense of others. At the extreme end of this response, we may even seek to profiteer from the crisis.

The second option is to choose to see that we are all in this together, that we are all sacrificing, all doing our best with what we have.

We can recognize that amidst the chaos is a shared humanity, that the fear we feel, the losses we have already suffered or will yet suffer mirror those of countless others the world over.

We can choose to support each other, to give the benefit of the doubt, to focus on the many more stories of people coming together than the few of people pulling apart.

We can step up as leaders in our communities by offering what we can to get the most vulnerable through the crisis, setting a tone of generosity, empathy, steadiness.

We can choose faith in each other over fear of each other.

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