– from an NRI Desk
Unbelievable, Unpredictable, and Unimaginable hit the world. Nature’s unbiased hit to mankind. An invisible creature to human eyes has just held a tight grip on the whole human lifecycle. The entire ecosystem has lost its track and hope of course. The whole human entity is shaking and left unanswered and unrecovered. Self-initiated or man-initiated, what matters today is it has filled every heart with fear of failure and panic of losing.
Everyone was fighting their own battle. Some were known and some got hidden in the arena. Individually each struggle has its pain point and survival story. One side was the medical system of the world which was struggling to make the vaccine and on the other side the common people were fighting to survive amidst the pandemic. Some people had enough money to survive without earning and the other side were those who were fighting a dual battle – pandemic survival and daily life survival. People were witnessing the loss and pain along with their family and there were these separate entities of people who were silently suffering, struggling and fighting all alone far from their dear ones which were left unrecognized.
International travel ! A fantasy for a few and a dream for few others. It is their hard work for a few and others it can be counted as their luck. To be frank, what’s most beautiful about traveling is the feeling of letting yourself explore. Letting yourself get out of a comfort-filled cage. Misconceptions and judgements the world makes about people living inter-nation is about the blissful and happening life they see on the froth. Yes! Of course, that is true but what remains unseen are those abstract feelings of attachment, a sense of sacrifice and their struggle to survive among the odds. It is counted on how much Dollars or Pounds or Yen you make, but it is never understood how much unknown emotional strength they have invested in achieving.
The number of cases spiking every single day in lakhs and the death beds getting filled faster than the light speed. Population in the country being far beyond imagination to control the pandemic by government rules. As the virus was spreading throughout the world, the foremost step thought was Cross Broder Travel Restriction.
It was day 1 for travel restriction and everything was normal. An increase in cases and panic began to build is when sitting miles away from our dear ones and hearing news of spread of infection in the country, in the state, to the district, in your city, in your neighborhood, in your apartment and then extended family members. Day by day the panic level started piling up. On the other side were those who had to panic about their family members living in other nations.
A New Normal – Work From Home. Sounds great, is it?! Sit at home, wake up at your convenience, work as per your schedule, have food, relax. Those are the myths. Just when you initially start working from home. The hard truth behind is building up of frustrated minds, less work efficiency, getting visionless with no aim or goals. This was the result of pandemic work from home mode. Getting isolated from nature was the return gift we received from the universe.
The beautiful International stay started getting harder. Each one had a story; some have their aged parents back in-home country who were getting mentally depressed from sitting at home and some others have their spouse and children who just wanted better family time. Some had to re-schedule their marriage and few others had to suspend their travel back home even after years of staying away. Some had to risk their job to even just plan the travel. If the travel gets planned after lot of struggle, then comes the the anxiety of flights travel, COVID test before and after arrival, home quarantine. These are just the tip of an iceberg.
Some people planned the to bring their family near them, which got canceled , and few others had to sacrifice being with their newborn babies. Some strong ladies had left their kids in the safer hands in the view of getting them near as soon as possible, but this pandemic had put a full stop to it all.
The worst situation was of those who lost their family member and were unable to even see them on their last rites. What can be more depressing!
Pandemic has knocked on every door. No fight was simple nor justifiable. From mental stress to panic attacks. From unhealthy body to unpleasant mental strain. Every individual is fighting their own battle in this war. Some are fighting together with their family and some like us, miles away from our people are fighting it a little harder. Though unseen, all fights are tracing a path towards forming a better tomorrow. Unseen fights are buried. Unseen pains are hidden. It is a battle between nature and mankind; it shall take an ample time extra than the World Wars in past. Let the battle cool down, let the pain start dissolving and bud of happiness bloom.
We live with hope, a hope of building a healthy nature that with time, self-awareness, discipline and patience shall turn into reality soon. Until then take a deep breath, relax! decades later it shall be our lesson in building a new lifestyle and better future.