Weeks and days on end of trying to tell people to be cautious, careful, and it is not over yet, seem to be coming true.
The new variant, the ever more rapid spread, the loss of human life. We cannot even ask where did we mess up. As I can tell you many, too many people were ignoring the masks, sanitizers, social distancing.
It's sad while we come back to our houses and coop us inside once more, the people who don't have the option are standing in queues at the hospitals, bus stands, railway stations.
It brings back the horrors of the last year back to us. But this time this is not deja vu, it's that old feeling with new horrors, as families are wiped out.
At this time of loss and grief, we must hold each other and comfort one another. The lines for an oxygen cylinder, the horror of black marketing at this time of essential life-saving medicines. We don't know whether to cry in pain or scream in shock. Why as a race we want to live for eternity, but do nothing about it.
The pollution, the corruption, the lack of responsibility, it's all too enraging. But we forget, once the immediate crises are averted we forget. But this disease is not letting us forget, it is fighting back, for the first time in many of our adult lives we have seen something like this. The memes tell us, something that can kill you can be kept away by just washing your hands. It makes you wonder! It is like the game of chess and we are the novice players and this virus is emerging as the grandmaster.
It's the rare occasions the novice emerges as the winner, beginners luck some would call it, but where this grandmaster of a virus is concerned we are being made the novice, and unless we can strike up that beginners luck, it is here to stay and very much take away years of precious life from us even if we don't catch it ourself.
So unless you want to make this the permanent new normal, the longing for leaving the house, the yearning of our children to go to school, even simple pleasures of meeting friends, to traveling the world, let us vow to follow rules till it's over for good.
I love to travel the world, see new places, meet new people, motherhood had put many destinations on hold, the regret of not doing it earlier is building, the sadness of it all is so heartbreaking, among many other things like the boys birthdays, little celebrations of life, big occasions all being put on hold. But life does not hold or stand still it keeps on moving.
Stay home and keep yourselves and your loved ones safe...
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