Obligations

We deal with obligations all the time, and probably don’t think too much about it. 

Today, a test result is yet to be returned to us – it’s still pending, 6 days after the test was done. 

We’re obligated to stay in isolation, even though the tested person has recovered and no longer has symptoms.  However, our obligation is that we wait for an official negative result.  Meanwhile the curtains come down all over the world, and we’re as far away from home as we can be.

Obligations rely on humans doing the right thing.  The right thing sometimes tests us.