2020 and 2021 - the biggest nightmare to witness but a new bloom to a beautiful sunrise too !
2020 March, it started - the first wave. Somehow we managed and sailed through it with the belief that this too shall pass and we should be soon able to take control over the virus, little did we know what lay ahead. To everybody's surprise 2021 came even more violently with the second phase creating the panick in every house, theworld over. Never knew before and had never thought also what a Pandemic was like. It almost devastated the whole world attacking health, finance, livelihood. The virus spread across the globe at a speed faster than wind giving no time to even think what was happening. We were so unprepared - no vaccine, no medicine, no knowledge of the infection, no idea of the cures. All we knew was - "it was spreading like wild fire among humans". In this state of helplessness and panic, came the only workable solution to be - restricted movements and stay indoors instructions. Everyone including the medical fraternity, scientists, government went clueless on the situation and the required actions to be taken for exercising over it. The death cases were only on the increasing high score world wide. To add to the messy state of affair all around was the economic slump. It was a state of utmost despair and pain - physically, mentally and emotionally for everyone to see how the entire human community was suffering.
Ofcourse, the pandemic gave us the hard times, the pain, the fears but at the same time it came as a great teacher too. In the chaos, came the good part. It was like a watershed. It was during these times when the night seemed the darkest and the most unending, in the desperate desire of survival, we started looking life in so many ways beyond our long established ways of thinking and living so far.
It reminded us all the teachings that our parents and grandparents had given us but sadly we had forgotten. It made us realize the value of relationships, value of money, value of good health, importance of savings, beauty of quality over quantity and the list is long. The best result of the lockdowns and stay at home orders was that we started looking at our homes again. We started dusting those remote corners of our houses to create more of spaces for me-time and family moments, We started taking decisions of quitting the high paying jobs and metro living and moving to our home towns with small assignments closer to family, we started puling out those books from the bookshelf which never got our time, those music records, old photo albums, old diaries which were left abandoned for years, we started de-cluttering and cleaning our wardrobes and cupboards by discarding unnecessary unwanted things and donating to the needy, we started to rise on our compassionate behavior and the best part was that we started cooking at home again, experimenting and trying old grandma recipes.
But the most important learning that this period of utmost turbulence gave was learning the art of living at the present by choosing love & faith over fear & anxiety for who knows what is there tomorrow.
Times are tough and will continue to be for some more time but Life rests on Hope and Hope for a beautiful tomorrow is always a beautiful feeling ! ❤😊
