Pandemic, Social distancing, Quarantine - probably even the Search Engines need a break from these keywords.
I heard someone say, what the world needs is a World War-III and I cringed every time I heard that. Yet, here we are. Yes, believe it or not, we are on a World war, except this time the whole world is united. The sufferings of many are tremendous and thanks to the "quarantine", we can be blissfully ignorant, focusing only 'our boredom'. Even though I fail to understand how people of my generation find time to be bored, because I am up on my feet all day - cleaning, cooking, working from home and attending to my child, in short - EXHAUSTED, I still respect the mass-boredom. Agree or not, we are unwinding, we are getting familiar with the dust that is sitting on the window pane of our own house, we are video-calling (that's a lot of visible emotion) friends rather than texting, we are picking up long-lost hobbies or even new ones and many are actually opening up their kitchen for the not-as-privileged ones. And all of these, while a few communities of common people - Pharmacists, Medicine delivery people and others are working in war footing alongside Doctors, Scientists and Police.
To be honest, nothing has much changed in my life so far, except for the better. All this while cribbing to have to go to office and not having enough time for my daughter, is a prayer that is answered. Albeit, my prayer is answered in the most tragic way for the world as a whole. All this while in all my life, I (as well as others) blamed myself for not staying up-to-date with the current affairs. Probably this time is my undoing, I feel blessed to not be overtly in touch with the news.
A few friends have asked me how am I keeping my little one engaged and I casually answered that on the contrary, she is keeping me constantly engaged. However, when I really thought about it, I guess the most important thing I could teach her at his age was to accept monotony gracefully. Like every other kid, she missed going out on strolls in her stroller or cycle, to play with her neighbour friends, or on a scooter ride with mommy or on short drives. But eventually, she is learning to accept the fact that for some reason, she has to stay indoors like mommy and if anything, she is either finding her own little games or sometimes just staring at birds and clouds from the window. Accepting monotony positively, whether in food or time is a tremendously rewarding process because it fosters and boosts your perseverance and somewhere it triggers a creative spark to break the monotony if and when possible.
I heard someone say, what the world needs is a World War-III and I cringed every time I heard that. Yet, here we are. Yes, believe it or not, we are on a World war, except this time the whole world is united. The sufferings of many are tremendous and thanks to the "quarantine", we can be blissfully ignorant, focusing only 'our boredom'. Even though I fail to understand how people of my generation find time to be bored, because I am up on my feet all day - cleaning, cooking, working from home and attending to my child, in short - EXHAUSTED, I still respect the mass-boredom. Agree or not, we are unwinding, we are getting familiar with the dust that is sitting on the window pane of our own house, we are video-calling (that's a lot of visible emotion) friends rather than texting, we are picking up long-lost hobbies or even new ones and many are actually opening up their kitchen for the not-as-privileged ones. And all of these, while a few communities of common people - Pharmacists, Medicine delivery people and others are working in war footing alongside Doctors, Scientists and Police.
To be honest, nothing has much changed in my life so far, except for the better. All this while cribbing to have to go to office and not having enough time for my daughter, is a prayer that is answered. Albeit, my prayer is answered in the most tragic way for the world as a whole. All this while in all my life, I (as well as others) blamed myself for not staying up-to-date with the current affairs. Probably this time is my undoing, I feel blessed to not be overtly in touch with the news.
A few friends have asked me how am I keeping my little one engaged and I casually answered that on the contrary, she is keeping me constantly engaged. However, when I really thought about it, I guess the most important thing I could teach her at his age was to accept monotony gracefully. Like every other kid, she missed going out on strolls in her stroller or cycle, to play with her neighbour friends, or on a scooter ride with mommy or on short drives. But eventually, she is learning to accept the fact that for some reason, she has to stay indoors like mommy and if anything, she is either finding her own little games or sometimes just staring at birds and clouds from the window. Accepting monotony positively, whether in food or time is a tremendously rewarding process because it fosters and boosts your perseverance and somewhere it triggers a creative spark to break the monotony if and when possible.
For me, I am just hoping, praying and most importantly, believing this phase will pass leaving the world a better place. Ironically, I can't help feeling that this social distancing is actually creating a greater humanitarian unity - beyond class, caste, religion or even your faith in your own government.
