Why Are We So Bent on Breaking the Rules?

Try to think of exactly how your decisions would impact the people closest to you

Photo by Drew Dau on Unsplash

This week is officially my second week of working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For many others across the globe, it might be week seven or eight or even more. For those individuals, they may have already accepted this lifestyle as the new normal, but for me, I’ve only recently come around.

However, despite the jarring evidence and the rapid growing numbers, there are still a vast majority of people who are refusing to accept this reality as their own; they are refusing to believe that this is the new normal.

For those individuals, they’re continuing to proceed with their lives as if nothing is wrong. They’re actively choosing to ignore health and government officials’ instructions and break the rules that were set in place by those officials. And unfortunately, that is going to be our downfall throughout this health crisis.

I live in the Greater New York City area—currently one of the most infected areas in United States. And the other day, as I stretched my legs for a quick two-mile run by myself around my neighborhood, I noticed that there were still a pretty significant number of people who were outside mingling and seemingly un-phased by the…