2020 marked the beginning of a new decade! People feeling grateful
to witness this new beginning. Some decided to change and the rest to
bring about a change in the lives of others. Young kiddos eagerly
waiting to complete their schooling this decade, thinking that growing
up is fun..... Enthusiastic youths waiting to see what life was going to
offer them this decade..... Mommies and Daddies building up hopes about
what their child is going to grow up to become....Grandparents wishing
to spend the autumn of their life with their children and
grandchildren.....This was it....HOPE....Even in their busiest schedule,
humans never forgot to build hopes. Humans resided on this earth 'cause
of this hope. Hope-that everything is going to be alright....Hope-that
one day, at least one day everything is going to happen
well.....Hope-that one day I can spend quality time with my family.
I
never understood how two individuals of the same species, same genus
can turn against each other in wars. It was about ME and only ME .Nobody
cared about others. People loved money more than humans. They loved
power. They loved being praised always. They always loved to be at the
top most level than anybody else. Yeah! It is true, only then there is
an urge to live. Only if there is something to achieve in your life,
then that is where you find your purpose of living. But above all this
there is this most important thing, “that your excellence should not be
at the cost of other’s lives”! 'Cause there are many who struggle to
just keep their life moving and suppressing them is not your success but
the greatest failure you can ever have.
Life was smooth until
there came a time when humans had to hold each other’s hands [not
literally though]. The new decade called for a war!!! Between states???
Or nations?? ? Or aliens???
Not at all! This war neither used
weapons nor nuclear bombs. Then how is that a war? Of course it is! It
may sound very trivial but it is huge, a really huge war. It is a war
between the so claimed to be “the most intelligent species" on the
planet-the Homo Sapiens and a very tiny little organism of size not
visible to the naked human eye-the Viruses. Yes, it is a fight with an
invisible world, an enormously huge invisible world. Seems strange isn’t
it? How can something so huge be not visible to the human eye?? We
could see them though, but only that it took too much of our efforts.
So let me officially introduce all of you to our opponent in the war-the CORONA VIRUS!!!
WOW!
The name seems beautiful! Isn’t it? Corona, which means crown, has done
its best to conquer this world, what no king or any ruler could do. It
taught us how starting bit by bit you can achieve the whole earth!
The
virus which is believed to have started from a small market in a
country spread across the whole world, covering nations and became so
famous that even a small child knows about it. The virus wanted to know
us more and live with us and so it got into the humans. So what dear
virus? You could have stayed in us without harming us like one of your
friend Rhino viruses. They come, stay with us for some time and then
goes back and when they start missing us, they just pay a visit again.
But you, dear Corona, you started harming us. You started taking away
what we liked the most-OUR LIVES! And that we could not take. So we
started doing all that we could! We distanced ourselves from our dear
ones. We even postponed our exams. Our doctors and nurses started
working for more hours. All the companies, both big and small, we shut
them all down. Our countries are facing their biggest losses. Tourist
places, wonders of the world, beaches, museums, malls and even holy
lands have become deserted places. All the churches, temples and mosques
have at present reduced to just mere buildings, having no worshippers
to visit them. There are no cars, buses, trains or flights. Almost all
countries have declared a lock down. Who knows how many are trapped in
different countries, craving to just reach back to their houses? Who
knows how many days we will have to stay locked up in our homes?
Where
did all that you achieved go? Where is all your power? People showed
great courage in waging wars against nations consisting of large armies
and strong men. They feared least to bomb nations and destroy innocent
souls. And now, where did all that guts vanish to? It is just a small
virus and it has conquered the whole earth.
But we know when
to stand together. Till date we did not bother about the real hygiene.
But now we learnt how important hygiene is. Till date we wished for more
holidays. But now we know how sitting at home has nothing special other
than to long for this vacation to end. Till date we did not know how
caged animals feel. But now we crave to be freed from this cage.
While
some people are enjoying their quarantine and making good use of it,
there is still a crowd who can’t make up to their everyday meal. But
thanks to our government! They are doing their best. The government has
given out certain orders which if each one of us follow, then can be
called as saviours of mankind. Only we can stop this spreading! Only we
can break the chain! Until a vaccine or medicine is found, we are the
superheroes. In this crucial time we have to stay with our government.
As I wrote in the beginning, let us hope that all this will end one day.
Surely it will end and everything will be back to normal. But let us
promise ourselves that the oneness we humans had with each other during
the war with the virus, the time we spent with our families, the “no
war” times between countries will still continue even after the this
pandemic.
Dear humans, just think-did we really need this Corona to come together, to care for each other?
Anyways,
thanks to Corona for bringing us together, for giving us quality time
to spend with our families, for giving us a chance to reconnect with our
old friends, for making us realize that even those with power and money
are just mere humans and that if it can happen to the weakest person of
the society, it can happen to the strongest one also. Thank you Corona
for making us understand that at last only love and care prevails and
not money or power.
But dear Corona, it is still a war! A war
without weapons! As humans we still live a life of hope. And keeping in
mind all that you taught us, we will do our best to survive.