A Day - My life during lockdown (Covid-19)

First Lockdown Day: 14 April 2020

Location: New Delhi (India)

I still remember that day at my workplace when I heard the news about the outbreak of Coronavirus and the first cases in China. We all literally had a big laugh thinking "Yes! It was of course China".

The very first case which was recorded in the world was in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. during that time no one expected that soon the world was about to live an epic Hollywood doomsday movie in real.

Days passed since the first case of the corona was in our news. All seemed to be easy in this corner of the world (India). That office fun, those jokes and moments of working and sitting next to each other, all was just so normal. Who could imagine that this simplest and most normal daily day life is about to become extinct soon? 

It Could Never Be More Stressful

After a few months, the tension rose and soon it all started to become a reality and we were all advised to work from home. Looking outside was a nightmare. People lost their jobs, struggling for day-to-day requirements of food and basic necessities of life. The world went into chaos. Some of us had strong feelings that it seemed like a bad dream only and soon we would wake up and things would be back to normal. Those casual tea breaks in the office, those chair-to-chair jokes and handshakes workplace fun and those normal moments. They all looked so luxurious now. This helplessness, this isolation from the normality of the world reminds me of my previous article about "Racism for Earth". Make sure you explore this horrifying reality of the world too. And if you are a religious person then I have something really interesting for you about the existence of God and research findings here "Unlocking the God". Make sure you check these out after this one.

Coming back to the lockdown...

The first day of lockdown was a life struggle and a fight to have food when the whole neighbourhood was struggling and fighting to gather basic necessities to survive longer in the lockdown. Although governments advised citizens to remain calm and don't overstock food and beverages, humans you know are not easy to control when they turn into a frustrated and furious crowd.

Luckily we had really friendly and caring shopkeepers in our neighbourhood so the pain was less. But survival requires more than that.

Companies rushed to deliver the laptops to workers to regain the workflow strengths from their homes but during a lockdown, even transportation was a challenge. The approval and document processing of the passage of vehicles were delaying the whole structure but it slowly progressed too.

Life wasn't easy...

Human beings are social beings and if you isolate them alone for some time then a lot of psychological changes happen and they are not positive. Apart from limited supplies, the feeling of being jailed for no crime is the ultimate pain. How about those who have a passion for travelling and are called travellers? Those who earn daily by going out on the road only. I can't even imagine the depth of those situations. Eventually, after almost a year things started getting better and the hope of light started appearing. 

The world where a nightmare became the new normal for humanity slowly started returning back to track. Days when a day was full of face-to-face interaction and handshakes and greetings and fun, jokes and smiles at work. 

In the end, the world learnt a lesson. At least some of us humans certainly did.

"Nature is the most precious and most fragile element in life. You better not mess with it. If it will, then you have no way to run but locked up."

-Rubeen Khan