All we need is a Pandemic !

I wake up with special gratefulness that I am still living. Scared about any emergency we would have to handle, especially when a vulnerable one is also infected. A lingering discomfort, an ache that creates anxiety, a night lived with fear of whether tomorrow will come! Yes, the virus in my body has prompted me to express how a homo-sapiens feels when struck by a global health phenomenon – a pandemic that threatens its survival.

While we lived with gratitude before the pandemic, the sense of gratitude has taken a different meaning in current circumstances. It has become more valuable to be thankful for each day that we rise, our very life a testimony to this. I never imagined that life could be a threat to everyone in the world at the same time. I keep reflecting that if I am still living and if I have overcome the virus in my body, there is a divine purpose that wants me to exist, to live on - a feeling of surrender and freedom develops firmly deep within.

People have just died suddenly, many children have become orphans in matter of days, young and old, healthy and vulnerable, none spared of the virulent infection.

I start reflecting and questioning life and its purpose. Sitting at home, working in confinement is equivalent to being a prisoner. Our freedom has been snatched by an invisible organism. And, I believe life is nothing but Freedom! Life’s purpose is Freedom. Freedom to choose. Freedom to be. Freedom to do what we like. The pandemic has indeed shackled our freedom, forced the social sapiens to live by rules, to live in fear, to live by the day. We have become victims of an unprecedented circumstances. I realise that we are not in control of our own life, although we think otherwise. There is something much higher than our comprehension that is keeping things intact in our life. All this has only strengthened my faith in the invisible and in things science and medicine can’t explain.

The pandemic has sped the process or time of death for many unfortunate souls who succumbed, and made us further realise that we’re here for a short time. Our identity and our existence is transitory. Humility, acceptance of our nothingness and a sense of gratefulness is how we need to be tuned psychologically.

All we need is a pandemic to appreciate life and be grateful for our existence J

Blossomchris!

21 May, 2021