What this lockdown and pandemic taught you??
A common question asked to many of us.
What it taught me??
Patience, mortals, uncertainty, time, love.
When this lockdown trend began, we all were quite excited, cooking new things; Dalgona, pizza, dhokla, momos, and the list goes on in my plate only; dancing, to those drum beats.
I opted for befikre songs to be true- 'Ne dis jamais Je t'aime'; painted after a year or so; and yes, who can forget 'Lacasa'.
While I was relaxing on an old brown sofa, I used to get feeds about Migrant workers being deserted in far-away lands, starved to death, sharing milk spilled on the streets with dogs, getting crushed under the rolling vehicles and don't forget trains.
I looked at all of them, presented them with my deep heart condolences, like all others, and then got back to my Lacasa, eating fries and chilling.
Actually, just like Sushant Sir's end, for a few days, we cared.
But, what this whole scenario teaches us, is a very diverse question.
I learned, how my life will end soon and I haven't seen the snow.
All these years, like a normal human being, I was taught and what I practiced was to live for the future, to study for a better life in the future.
When this COVID appeared, and I finally found there's no future, my present was blank and the past was just a memory. This taught me 'we must Live our present', as who knows if the future exists or not.
I am quite a fast runner out of tracks and like a normal human, I need to compete and focus on the end.
I can't stop in this life race as there are so few opportunities for us to seize.
Running and running, there came the biggest full stop of my life, no peeks and cheats allowed.
I didn't know how to stop and wait for things to get normal.
Just like a ballet dancer is asked to stop dancing on that rhythm, and the dancer can't, so he clashes with the full stop and falls. After the fall, the dancer needs to heal and wait.
This is how I learned ' Patience'.
Another thing is about love...!!
The way it is romanticized.
We see movies and read some really good novels, telling us the love of this kind and that.
But one day you realize that love is like a mathematical equation.
we are trying to use different values and till that one value is giving us all values correct, we don't even think about any other value, until at the last point, you got stuck and have to use another value because the first one stopped solving the equation.
This is how I learned about 'self-love'. I came alone in this world and if I can't even love myself, I don't think I can love anyone else.
Right now, there are hundreds of uncertainties and all we can do is hope, for a better tomorrow.
There's one more thing which I think is crucial at this point and that is to explore yourself and your surroundings.
Looking at the rising sun, the sky at dusk, stars in the dark and full moons...
you will never feel alone and almost no bad thought will cross your mind, as this is a sort of nature love.
Nature, which knows what is healing and what is beauty, what is patience, and how precious the time is.