Self-quarantine - The New Normal




Uncertainty, testing days to get over, we tend to feel blue though this looks much safer than what is happening a few yards away..

We get Panicky for so much Gloominess around., 
A Self-quarantine is all about like A 'Safe House' we will be with our very own, we call them our loved ones, on any other day Its time to overcome a notion that we don't give time to each other due to the everlasting pre-schedules in careers & goals etc., Now We are finally there but only in a Structural form & not willing to let loose our minds from a devastating chaos a fiction movie kind of images we witnessed in such quick time outside the house, i.e just few meters away from what we call a safe self quarantine.. 

Quarantine is also a tricky one, for all those who live/ like/ love the world of isolation; they'll feel blessed & grateful. 
Unless my dear friends, this word ‘Quarantine’ will not become another nightmarish term, as dreadful as Corona.
We only hope & Pray that the Human Kind just remain in numbers, but definitely not like as an Evaporating smoke & nothing else. 

How is our rich Indian culture coping with this? There is no better time for man to remind himself of an English word – ‘Introspection’. Corona made the world get up and take note. It won’t need that ‘hype’ anymore, as in such modern… oh sorry… ultra-modern days, Corona is making everyone run helter-skelter. It not only brought the aeroplanes down, but also the high flying tycoons down to earth, our Motherland. I am sure if not anyone, a mother would be heaving a sign of relief seeing her family sit and eat together the food she has been cooking forever!

Across the globe, we were only surviving under a strong ‘hype’. Countries, instead of ruling their respective voters only focused on featuring themselves before prefixed cameras, speak out of scripted pages on how their cash-rich products or infrastructure is one-of-a-kind in our times, thus projecting to the eager looking rest of the globe that “if not for inventing this, the world wouldn’t have survived…” Blah blah blah!

Media has a role; it goes crazy; UN is ready with a pre-prepared vote of thanks. Self-declared entrepreneurs donning expensive suits are on front pages of world’s best magazines. Few more nations follow suit to compel the world to notice their ‘good for nothing’ (oops!), good for ‘only bigwigs’ inventions.
In such a circus, China had different ideas. There is something about China; it spends more time in laboratories than homes. China’s hunger to call themselves a super power is never satiated; that’s different pedestal altogether!

The world has witnessed a lot of viruses in the past and made some into household names. Of course, countries feared them, but by the time Corona arrived, someone reminded a corporate success mantra called ‘Updated Version’.
Well, Corona definitely surpasses every previous (recorded) damage, and the best part is, (sorry worst part is) Corona is here to settle down, but it just hates humans to see in its neighbourhood, I suppose.

So, now when the world is under lockdown, the never ending issue based headlines – (read) Nationalism, Uniformity, Reservations, Racism, Terrorism, Migration, Political War or Legacies, Retirement plans aka benefits – nothing seem relevant. Sit at home or hide inside; save your lives. Coming out of the house is a crime today. Well done, Corona.

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