It's a dumb post!
Really. You can skip it if you want!
I am jotting it down
just for the heck of it. Today is day 3 of the lockdown and I had to step out of the house for some
essentials. I went out on Day 1 too, but that was panic calling in and I had to
stock up. The other day the roads were awfully quiet and it felt eerie and
lonely outside.
It was a very
stressful outing. I also was supposed to carry some stuff for my neighbours who
couldn’t go out. During this outing, I realised, what a cage we live in. The
cage obviously is the mind! My panic and anxiety peaked. I am usually not the
one who stresses out so easily. I have a pretty good control over any situation
until it really goes overboard. This was perhaps one of those situations.
I remember my
grandfather telling me the stories of war. How it used to be during the British
time, or during the China war and how during a curfew getting basic necessity
was a big deal. They survived through it all. As a generation we are surely
better than our grandparents - most of us I assume!
We have bigger
houses to live in, food stocked up, and most important we have phone and
internet with which we can get in touch with our families who are also isolated
in another part of the country!
This time, the
trains and basic transportation services were also stopped - this is for the
first time in history - imagine the gravity of the situation! And we thought
our grandparents have seen it all! And it’s all good for us now!
Nope!
Today the roads had
some people going around for groceries too - rather too freely. Was I one of
them I wondered. My want probably is a need for someone else at the moment! Do
you know, how we go out and buy two things extra anticipating that we will use
it when the time comes!
Do you have those
multi color mugs, plates and spoons? Or multi flavoured biscuits, oats and
noodles?
Or a variety of
fruits?
Believe me, I have
hoarded all of these too, not just during this time of lockdown, but all the
time. Despite giving minimalism a priority, an inherent human tendency to
hoard, always stays! It is a fight for survival, after all! Whose survival now
though?
It startles me, how
we become family oriented - thinking about a select few, when there are so many
out there, walking hundreds of kilometres back home! They are a family too.
Could we do something for them? Are we already doing?
If I were in their
place, what kind of anxiety would I have? I could even pass out or die given
that situation of homelessness, hunger, water depravity and only way of
reaching home is to - walk!
It makes no sense to have anxiety, sitting an
apartment, with groceries stocked up!
IT IS ALL IN THE
MIND!
The mind is the cage
and one needs to set everything in it free.. Breathe freely, and be beyond the
doubts of "What if".
I know one fact for
sure - Nature made us, and for sure she will take care! Either she will
provide, or teach a lesson!
It's up to us to be
grateful in all that she has to offer and learn whatever the lesson is …. Or
misuse and -stay dumb!
There is a lot of
depth and lot of layers in whatever is happening!! Set the mind free, you will
see it. Believe me~!!
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