Fighting the flu

I had prepared a rough draft about what things I will be suggesting for this month for you all to watch read and try but the Deaths, destructions, apathy, misery, struggle, helplessness, lack of oxygen, beds, medicines combined with simultaneous lack of accountability responsibility morality, and empathy do not allow my conscience to write anything other than what's prevailing in the current times. It will be remembered as disastrous bookmarks of our modern India and we the millennia are witnessing this. 

A Quick five-minute surfing on social media will make anyone nervous, the volumes of SOS calls for help, the pain of boys and girls grieving for their parents will break anyone's heart. it is nerve-wrenching to watch people of my age struggling to breathe and more so struggling to get their parents an odd hospital bed. I wonder how does one get the courage to bear these tremendous griefs. The parents cremating their young ones goes against the natural order of things.it is perhaps most devastating to be unable to mourn the loss due to this perpetual fear of the spread of the virus.

I feel the pain of kids and college students who should be meeting their classmates, who should be roaming around campus, who should bunk classes for going out on movies, who should develop new relationships which they would cherish for the rest of their lives (like we did the lucky once before the pandemic) but the conditions are such that they are trapped in own houses for almost 2 years. Those who are losing their college years amid this lockdown are at an equal loss.

I remember my grandparents telling us similar kind of destructions in their childhoods where villages after villages were wiped clean after rampant viral diseases and it was almost impossible to believe that something of that intensity will ever happen again, provided the developments in the medicinal field combined with the infrastructural and economic progress we achieved in past decades. But all those advancements are falling like a house of cards. I have lost family members friends and so many other people. The situation is such that I have started thinking about what will happen once the rampage of this virus will end, how many people in my proximity will succumb to it, will I be there on the surviving list or I will be just another number on the official data (that too if I am the lucky one as so many unaccounted bodies has been cremated and is being cremated throughout the country). 

I never thought we will be missing the human touch as much as we do right now, it was so obvious that we never comprehend how would someone deal with something as important as this. I hope these tough times pass and we could once again feel the warmth of our loved ones. I miss my group of friends I miss the times we use to dine together, and I hope once this rampage slows down we all could cherish the fundamental human attributes. Sending love to all. Take care folks.