Covid-19, a Pandemic that not only put one nation but the entire world on standstill. Social distancing not only became a hashtag in fact a way of living, especially thanks to the evolved technology the world somehow found a way for its existence and is surviving at its best
I remember the initial stage when the sparks of this virus were taken in an easy-breezy manner thinking in no time this too will be defeated, in other words, according to me, we were only patting our little human ego brushing away the truth and standing far away from the reality of the ongoing pandemic, as it was here not as a guest, in fact, to stay by doubling its repercussions in leaps and bounds.
2020 indeed has been a challenging time for all of us irrespective of their social status or religion #weareinthistogether has become the hashtag uniting the whole world, encouraging nations to lend out their helping hand to each other in every way they can, especially the ex-pats or tourists.
FINANCIAL DISTANCING
The economy of every country was under threat, every business was going through heavy losses, just then some law was declared that the companies could reduce the salaries and cut back on staff and many of them implied the law immediately. This law might have been advantageous to a few, but not to the ones who were on the other side facing the brunt of it. People still had to take care of their fixed disbursements.
We personally had to deal with salary reduction and I did not earn a fancy salary, but it was still enough to suffice our daily payments. The income was restricted but the expenses were still as demanding as they ever could be. As the days surpassed us so did the series of unfortunate events, I lost my job due to the current economic state, so now overseeing the budget was relied on only one earning half which also happens to be my better half .
It might be believed that we spared our expenses while we were secluded from the outside world, but on the other hand, it was quite the opposite we landed up spending a heavy chunk every week on groceries. Along with that we also had to keep constant provisions of nibbles ready for our little hungry munchkins Food was not the only factor that we need to consider, we also had to take care of the basic household necessities, for those we used to go to avail the best deals at the luxury of malls but now we had to spend “Deal or No Deal” so savings was becoming a faint concept. It looks like even my funds are maintaining #socialdistance from my fund account.
IMPACT–
This life was not all devastating, I saw our family come together and tackled this challenge head-on (pun intended). In the evenings we invented new games, created new facts from recycled materials, sharpened our culinary skills, since we could not enjoy the brush of fresh breeze on our faces we set up an indoor picnic spot, watched loads of movies with popcorn along with marshmallows and various other candies . It’s good that our generation grew up without the comforts of electronics, so today to keep the kids busy with the art of role-playing was not as difficult as I thought it would be, all I had to do was eat imaginary dishes that were never heard of and I pray, should never be heard of , and be a patient with various ailments. It was a remarkable time that I enjoyed bonding with my kids without the help of technology which was simply overwhelming for me.
I was in awe of how well my youngsters grabbed their wits around the current situation, how curious their minds were to know the current affairs of the country. My son comes to me regularly demanding to know the updates occurring all over the world. When they speak up it is an amazing feeling to hear how well informed they are as to why they are living a quarantined life and today also when they hang up calls they make sure to add “Stay Home Stay Safe”.
We humans always wished for a long-lasting weekend and we got one but on very different terms. We wanted to lie around all day in bed “SNAP” we got that wish granted too only to walk in our house into the wee hours of the night like a ghost, we wished to be couch potatoes and dare I say we did become that even our clothes started maintaining social distancing from us
So, Covid-19 has taught us that wishes do come true, but at a very heavy price.
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