Literary Digest LITERARY DIGEST MAY 2020 | Página 14

India has been in Lockdown since 24
March, 2020. All our wishes came true
at that time, when we didn’t have to
work and could sit at home the whole day
and do absolutely nothing. It was all well
and good for the first 2 weeks, after that
however, the realisation set in that we
were in this for the long haul. Human
beings are creatures of habit. We need to
keep ourselves occupied in order to
remain sane. With some losing their jobs
and others having to undertake the 1000
mile journey back to their native lands to
return to their families, these times have
not been easy for many of us. However,
with the end in sight, there is a silver
lining to all of this. There has been a
positive impact of
the CoronaVirus in
all our lives.
T h e r e a r e
numerous reports
daily about how us
humans have come
to aid each other
during these trying
times. Be it by
buying an elderly
their groceries for
the whole week or buying healthcare
workers their lunches, this virus has
taught us that we’ve got each others
backs.
Families are spending time
together doing something that they’ve
never had the opportunity to do, talk. Dad
is no longer getting late for office, Mom
does not have to get the children ready for
school and thus, the breakfast table is full
again. The happiest at this time is the dog,
who now literally has his family with him
24/7 and no longer has to wait in angst by
the door, waiting for the car to park itself
in the garage. We’ve found new skill sets
we never thought we had. Some are
cooking, some are finding out how they’ve
always been something of a shutterbug
while some have been infected with the
writing bug.
VIRUS
The world too is changing for the
better amidst the virus. The ozone layer is
repairing itself, various species of fauna
are being seen on a daily basis in places
where they were thought to be long gone
(the River Dolphins recently found in the
Ganges), the pollution levels have
reduced drastically bringing people closer
than ever before to nature, (yes I mean the
people in Punjab who had a glimpse of the
Himalayas after decades). It just shows to
prove that time does indeed solve
everything.
As we turn the page on this chapter
o f o u r l i ve s , o n e t h i n g m u s t b e
remembered. Patience and Time are our
biggest warriors against the Corona Virus.
With a little bit of
p a t i e n ce a n d a
whole lot of time
we will surely pull
t h r o u g h . W h a t
doesn’t kill us will
the
WORLD
o n l y m a k e u s
stronger.
Dad will go
back to getting late
for office, the dog
will assume its
usual position, his tail eagerly waiting to
wag and the kids can go back to school, to
be assigned an essay on, “How I Spent My
Lockdown?” It will all get back to being the
normal that we knew.
In the meantime lets give a
shoutout to being #notnotpositive.
Contributed by:
Manan Jain
Student at ULIS,
Panjab University,
Chandigarh