Recovery

 

After a tornado or wild fire or hurricane and the waters dry up and the bodies are removed, victims recover. Call the insurance agent (when the cell service comes back on), figure out how to get food and water, move trash to a pile and find what items can be salvaged. If the money is there, recovery may be rebuilding. If the money is not there, recovery may mean moving to another spot to start over again.

Some have other places for shelter or stay with family or friends until the welcome runs out.

Then, there are businesses and employees and salaries and machinery. Are there vehicles for delivery? Do restaurants have mandatory accommodations for service? Are the banks open? Clothing needs to be washed? Toilets need to be flushed? Babies need diapers? When will the mail arrive?

Our species seem to be a resilient bunch and will rebuild a house on the edge of the beach in hopes that another hurricane will not come by and blow it down. Didn’t say we were the smartest of all the planet, but we recover and move on.

There are many types of recovery, other than natural disasters. There is the recovery of love lost and a broken heart. There is recovery of a close friend or family member dying and the curtailing grief. There is the loss of a job and salary, not only an economic adjustment, but a mental degradation of pride and self-worth. There is recovery from injury. There is recovery from addiction. There is no recovery from age.

Recovery is a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.  No matter how well the recovery goes, you can never go back.