“Continuing…”

Next morning, when I woke up, the first thing that remains always in my routine is to check the mobile for the updates…Being a writer, it comes as a responsibility to me to check for any updates received from the clients. But, the first thing that I was forced to read was a terrible and a shocking news of my society, in fact the flat next to me was reported as COVID positive.

Imagine the situation when you hear that the nightmare that has always made you traumatized has just occurred close very close to you! I was stunned, speechless, nervous with my heart beating very fast. All this situation was only because I was a mother of a 3 yrs old baby. Situation doesn’t make you impatient until you are alone, but, when you have a family, you become more possessive.

 8.30 Am, the time when I am always in kitchen preparing breakfast and making haste for making lunch for my husband, at that time I was on my bed starring to my husband with some hope, without uttering a single word but my eyes can say “Dear, Is it necessary to go to office today? Can you just take an off?”

I wanted to say this to him desperately and with full rights, but, something that was dragging me behind was the fear of refusing. But, still holding all my breath I did, and our conversation goes like this:

A short Conversation goes on

• Me: Can you take an off for atleast someday, as I am scared for any of us from stepping out.
• Husband: picks up his phone and opened up his call log to call someone, and guess who? It was none other than his senior.
• Good morning Sir! Actually, so early I gave you call because I get to know that there is a corona patient in our tower. He just uttered these lines with a strong hope that the answer he will receive was to take an off for somedays and stay at home…

And the reply that he got was, No worries. eat healthy food, consume more fruits and take care of yourself…

There were no replies in favour of taking off.

“I thought, why people actually don’t understand keeping themselves in other’s situation. When someone keep themselves in my shoes, then, only they will come to know how it feels. Anyways, I was already prepared to hear this, so I didn’t react much and engrossed myself in preparing tiffin”.

After my husband left for office, I kept myself busy in performing household chores, looking after my child and writing. However, the entire day was so tiring that I didn’t get time to rethink on the same.

Same Day Evening

7.45 Pm, door bell bangs on. The 3 yrs old child rushes towards the door to open, but, alas, it was bolted. I accompanied him and opened the door. he was back to home from office. the first and foremost thing that he did after corona pandemic was to sanitize himself by taking a bath, sanitizing his usb cable, phone, spects, and office bag, before touching anything.

It can be clearly seen that how a small and invisible virus has dramatically changed the complete lifestyle what people tend to live before. And I can have a live example in front of me.

The tiny tot who was waiting eagerly for his dadda to come home and with the priority of taking him in his lap was saddened as he could see his dad moving towards the bathroom. This was just because, dadda was forced to change the entire habits just to keep his family safe.

However, when I wonder that is this situation happening to me or everyone? Then, I realize that my life has taken just a small turn in terms of daily routine, how about those who have lost their job, families, have been fired or have slipped in such a worst situation that they never ever expected to be.

Guys, I take this situation as a challenge and expect you all too to become a precedent of being a mankind. Let’s create a unity among each other and fight together keeping apart all caste and creed. Let our future generation know how we manage to spring out together in such a tough situation….

“Good Luck”