Quarantine Musings

Never imagined we would be all cooped up in our homes since 22^nd March 2020 when the Prime Minister announced the ‘Janata Curfew’. It was priming us to act voluntarily what the Govt. eventually enforced afterwards looking at gravity of the situation worldwide. Now here I am roaming about in my house doing all household chores which I loathed to do. It’s a surreal feeling of living in dystopian world where humans are caged and nature returns back with a vengeance. With sparrows & itinerant sundry birds making an appearance on my balcony it’s me who is inside while they are flying free. We frequently come across a doomsday scenario in movies & novels and I must confess that this pandemic has made us realize the fallibility of human nature. We are eating beyond our means and in the process endangering flora & fauna of Mother Earth that’s unreplenishable and this reminded me of the movie Avatar where human are trying to destroy balance of nature in a faraway moon of Pandora. Its human avarice and lust to satisfy our taste buds & olfactory nerves that has unleashed a number of pathogens like the recent Covid-19, H1N1, HIV/AIDS just to name a few.
As it is human nature to survive I believe we will overcome this adversity too but with many people across the globe having to pay with lives unfortunately. This pandemic has forced us to rethink our lifestyle and the world will be a different place once this scourge recedes. All countries are in turmoil now with world economy in a tailspin and will take years to stabilize. Health and hygiene has suddenly become of paramount importance and I am reminded of the simple but scientific lifestyle of our forefathers. Footwear were to be always kept outside the house, on coming from outside one had to take a bath and put the clothes for washing, fasting was an regular affair to allow body systems to rest while Namaskar was a way of greeting and human activity coincided with the path of life giving Sun. It’s time we return to our roots & reclaim the wonders of our civilization that is unchanged and unexplored