The news came and you panicked you bought canned goods, freeze dried fruit and more toilet paper than you could use in a year.

You watched every news channel and listened to every talk show on the radio. You sanitized door handles, shopping carts, and groceries before you brought them into your home. You slathered your hands with sanitizer and appointed a runner to make essential runs for your family.

You avoided the outdoors and contact with people. You became terrified by the possibility of death and you allowed that fear to fester. You rationed everyone and everything. You began to believe that people who went outdoors without masks or into stores without masks were your enemy.

You stayed within your family unit, you ordered contactless grocery delivery and canceled doctors appointments. You navigated zoom and telehealth if it was necessary. You became a prisoner within your own home.

You did this because you believed you were helping , because you were afraid of dying, of becoming sick or of getting others sick. You continued to watch the updates from the WHO, CDC, and NIH and you didn’t question when those entities strongly disagreed.

You failed to allow yourself to see that your fear had taken such hold of your life that you no longer were living. You didn’t die, but did you live?

Each day thousands of people died not of COVID-19 but of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, kidney failure,old age , murder, suicide etc. And so many chose to allow their fears to keep them from their loved ones.

It is time to stop being afraid. It is time to stop trusting everything you are reading and hearing in the media and realize that our government is corrupt and divided and they are doing everything they can to divide us. It is time to ask yourself if your survival this past year was worth every thing you lost?

You may have continued breathing and you may have survived. You may have done what you feel is your part and taken precautions with a vaccine. The question you must truly be asking yourself is Did you live?