Life between BC & AC

We are the live creatures whose life suffered between Before Corona and After Corona. Now as it seems like we are on the road to exit the orbit of the corona effect we can conclude we have survived the pandemic.

We all have seen and heard what lockdown has led us to. It is been a memorable journey till date. Memorable in all ways, it made us feel fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. We have counted day with increasing pressures and trying to keep calm.

One day will come when we will be free to move around and life will seem like coming back on tracks, but the picture would be different than it was B.C.-before corona. The most vulnerable thing is the loss during this period, the lives that we have lost.

We have heard stories that happened on roads, in hospitals, behind the closed doors, and many more. All powers failed during this period. It was something we never thought of in the wildest dreams. Life seemed to be so unfortunate, but the only fortunate thing is we are still alive. The strongest countries could not stand in front of the pandemic. The USSA, Russia, China all countries were on their knees.

The most unfortunate thing is people have lost jobs and are wondering how to get back to normal, how to get the new opportunity ASAP. How to earn? Not only this, but there are also many things around that will haunt us. 

I can feel many thoughts surround my head like the chirping birds in a cartoon going round and round after banging.

A thirty-year-old son refusing the hospital's members to do his infected father’s funeral. The hospital officials carrying the packed bodies in plastic bags for the last rites. The bodies getting exchanges, misplaced. The extreme treatment given to patients, along with dead bodies lying next to their bed. People migrating to their home towns walking all the way across the state borders. Religious fights humiliating doctors and nurses at quarantine centers. The baby crying beside the dead mother's body. The child who covered all the way walking across borders dies at hardly one hour distance. A dead man who died of natural death was not touched by anyone for almost a day till the ambulance and the people in the PPE kit arrived. This unfortunate act was not limited to humans, even the pets were abandoned on the roads by the owners. The pregnant elephant killed in Kerala. Celebrities succumbed to depression committing suicide. Schools, colleges, institutes, offices all closed down. Everybody struggling to earn, trying their best to do jobs from home.  Around Six lakh people Succumbed to corona. Some brave hearts fought to it and came back to normal. Now the stage is even we who alive are immune to the extent that we may not even require the vaccine.

The worst part was people who were asked to resign in difficult times. Is it not the moral responsibility of these organizations to support individuals, their employees during this hard phase, which was not limited to them only but extended to the whole world? Human has gone to the extent of black marketing of the medicines which act as a savior for the people infected.

We have survived this pandemic to narrate the history like we have heard of plague some decades back. But what do we learn out of this? Does this pandemic change our thoughts? Does it bring all of us, everybody alive to the same level of humankind?

We have suffered more than the actual sufferers of the corona, watching it helplessly and understanding the value of life. The lives that we lost have opened our eyes to the very fact of life, basic needs, relations, work, family, care, concern. It made us collectively look like a country without caste, race, colour, gender.

Difficult time, the hard times in life help us recognize the people around us. Though it hurts and pains it is the most learning phase of life. The tough time does not last but tough people do. We have learned a lot during these four months. Hope we hold on to these memories life long to make us realize where we stand.

May be next year onwards we will narrate this as a story. We will be back to our jobs, traveling freely, visiting malls, gardens, birthday celebrations, marriages, and having fun. I hope the sneeze or cough may not bother to us A.C still it would hold your breath of a second to remind you these days.

We are the part of this historic pandemic and hope we pass on the learning to the next generations.