We are so complicated!
Okay! I wont
beat around the bush and would straightaway land on today’s thought. So, lately
I’ve been thinking a lot about how this quarantine and lock down has changed
lives. Like many lives. Well, almost every life. Some for good, while some for
bad and even worse. On one hand are the kind of people who never had enough
time out of their busy schedules to explore themselves more, or to know about
their hidden talents; people who wanted to learn something of their interests
but it took them forever to take the first move. Many people realized the
importance of family while many realized the activities that really satisfied
them. Some shy people started to open up while some introverts turned ambiverts.
Many started writing their thoughts while many started sharing it with the
world.
But this is just one side of the story. While you would’ve felt so happy listening about the people who changed for the good, you’ll be equally sad, or even more when you flip the coin and hear about the other side of it. This break in people’s life didn’t just bring realization. It also carried with itself a demon called frustration. While liquor shops were shut down in the country, many addicts were witnessed taking out all their frustration on their family members. Incidents like a father raping his own daughter and mother encouraging the act, went viral. Videos like a son beating his own mother brutally for property while wife screaming to keep it going did rounds on social media. While economy took a major toll on working people, many were seen opting unfair means to keep their lives going. Unable to feed the rest of the family, a father was seen selling his 4-month old girl child for money. Some doctors who are no less than gods in today’s era were seen playing with the lives of many. A pregnant elephant was seen murdered for fun.
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Not that inhumane
incidents like these weren’t seen happening before COVID hit the world, but
majority of them were the result of ongoing resentment in people’s mind.
Because of their inability to deal with their own brains and feelings.
Not just the
incidents like these are heart breaking. This era witnessed back to back
losses. Some lost their only family while some lost their own selves. All of a
sudden, many happy go lucky souls started witnessing their minds wandering into
lonely spaces, many mental health sufferers were observing their minds
deteriorate to a level, returning from where almost seemed impossible to them.
While people, who couldn’t cope with their struggles were seen ending up their
journeys.
In all of this, I wonder about how difficult a human is? How tough people think their life is? They are stressed when they’ve tons of work files to go through and they’re even more stressed when they get all the time in this world to relax. How every other person gets saddened by the thought of losing his/ her family and how he/ she is frustrated to spend all this time with his/ her family? How every other person is ready to cross all the limits to provide comfort to his/ her loved ones and how when he/ she gets to spend as much time possible with them, all he/she thinks about is his/her own solace? We humans are really very complicated in our thoughts. We think one and do the other. We talk one and opt for the other. We imagine one and live the other.
We need to
understand that life won’t always be a perfect day. Sometimes that sunshine
will block our vision of that free sky. We need to understand that sometimes
those rough winds will knock us down and we will have to get up on our own. We
need to understand that beneath all these sufferings is a plank of strength
which keeps us going, regardless of any amount of force. But at the same time,
we need to keep in mind about how to keep that plank of strength intact, about
how to nurture it timely so it doesn’t break when we are in the utmost need of
it. While sometimes that plank is our own selves, the other times our family
act as the same; our close one’s act as the same.
This
quarantine basically acted as a mirror, showing people their real natures,
reflecting people their actual personalities, making them aware of how complex
of a person they are. Also, it acted as a test paper for other people in their
lives. Those who kept up with them are their true mates, hence passing the
test, while the ones who didn’t even try to contact them once, know about their
well-being once, failed the test. Also, it proved people how deceptive they are
to their minds and hearts. They thought about a particular person being
important in their life but ended up failing the same test.
C’mon guys.
Lets just open up. Lets just be true to ourselves, if not to the others. Let’s
just not cheat our own selves, if we can’t be honest to others. Let’s just
enjoy the life we would never get back. Lets just hold on to moments, when we
are known of the fact of them becoming a memory. Lets just cherish the present
without worrying about the future. Let’s change. Let’s explore. Together, if
not alone. United if not diverse.
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