“I Am A Rock” — Simon and Garfunkel
If there’s one thing that 12 months of a pandemic has taught us, surely it’s that none of us is a rock…or an island for that matter…we all depend on one another, sometimes in ways we’re aware of and at other times in ways we don’t consciously think about.
Of course, we all know we depend on wonderful healthcare professionals to keep us safe in the middle of a pandemic and look after us if things go wrong.
But what about the Amazon delivery driver whose name we don’t know…the grocery supplies which turn up on our doorstep thanks to a supply chain thousands of people strong…the nameless tech people who invented everything we need to work from home more or less as easily as working in the office.
We might think we’re rugged hunks of individualism and self-reliance, but that’s less and less true when we take the time to think about it.
The roads we drive our cars on…the buildings we live and work in…the food we eat…I’m guessing very few of us have built our own roads, invented cars to drive on them, built our own houses and grown all our own food.
In fairness to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, that’s not the point they’re making in the song, but it’s the thought that popped into my mind when “I Am A Rock” came on the radio the other morning.
