Goma Naral
Coronavirus aka COVID has created havoc upon people’s day-to-day life and activities. It has engulfed the world in its paws. No country is left who has not had direct or indirect impact from it. COVID has spread its extremities all round that no one is being able to escape.
We can hear every day and every moment that health professionals are dying while caring and treating people with COVID trying to do good and save lives but some people are whining about boredom and being confined at home. If we live, we can always celebrate later. So, we should be grateful that we are safe and healthy up to date.
The present situation got me to thinking about what life is really about. We don’t seem to value its importance rather we chose to do it latter. Fighting like there is never an end to it and not a chance for peace. I have witnessed many grieving and aching through the media and the news and I hear them every single day. I wish no one had to ever go through such a situation. This global crisis has inferred a sense to me on a personal level, if there is anything in this world that should be revered about, it is family and love. So make sure you make time for them and let them know that you are fortunate that you have them and you appreciate their love. People are ridiculing the whole circumstances and taking it as a trivial matter. It is not a sitcom; a family is watching on a channel on the television; it is something that should acquire serious consideration.
People seem to never run out of stupidity for things instead they do the same to exaggerate on sensitive matters for their personal pleasure and gain.
It puts me to thinking about who we are and what we are being taught or manifested to be. I guess the world is really changing and heading towards a new version of civilization or at least in an insensitive world where one displays no compassion for others. I feel that time is not far away when time will waltz without letting anyone know. I guess we just have to live with that, with new normal.
New normal defining our every aspect of our life, aspects that are long forgotten or shadowed. With the new surge in the number of cases, recent recurrent outbreak and second wave world is thinking the mask will be an inseparable accessory. People were trying to recover and adjust the aftermath of the pandemic; it has again knocked everyone’s doorstep.
Nowadays the new motto in life is be safe and stay healthy. Alas! At last people have come to their senses that health is the utmost wealth not money, nor physical assets, nor jewelries, nor land, only health. Health is what that matters to all now.
So be safe and stay healthy and wish for this pandemic to be over.
[Naral is a registered nurse working in Sydney, Australia.]