這也將通過 - This too shall pass

In my career, I have been observing many crises.  In 2007 as I left graduate school for a lucrative career in investment banking and witnessed the global financial breakdown.  I will never forget seeing the markets unwind and bring down with them 401k plans, hopes, dreams, etc.  At the height of the crisis, it appeared almost daily where clients were emailing and calling us desperate pleading as they tried to track down companies and their investments.  As a young banker at the time, I felt compelled to find and give answers, as I am now in my role as the CEO of ReadyAI, even as the world seemed to be crumbling right before my eyes.

In the coming years, I saw crisis after crisis:  the H1N1 pandemic (which resulted in 60 million cases and more than 12,000 deaths in the US alone);  the Arab Spring unfolded - I was in Tehran fixed to the TV;  Ebola and;  the 2015 Paris terror attacks; Zika; and destructive hurricanes and earthquakes among so many others.  Do you remember the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic ash cloud of Iceland? The name alone was a nightmare for anyone seeing it.

Each time, in the heat of the moment, it often felt so astonishingly devastating and all-consuming and like it might never end, not unlike the current coronavirus outbreak.  Yet each time, we came out on the other side.  Likewise, this, too, shall pass.  Not today, unfortunately not tomorrow either, but this also will eventually be in the rearview mirror.  And until COVID-19 (much easier to pronounce than the Eyjafjallajokull) is behind us, hang in there.  

Deep breaths and positive and happy thoughts.  We're all in this together.