Our days have been an epitome of isolation, fear, introspection, patience and humanity. I have been visualising this world through my environment, media updates and interactions with individuals from varied cultural fields. Each one has their own perceptions about this unpredictable reality that we all are witnessing collectively as a holistic unit. But when I view this dynamic world from my window, I am overwhelmed to observe the best of my community that is growing in strength and transferring its positive vibes. I see hope and realization communicating through their humane gestures.
The roads that were ignorant about its existence shouts out in silence. Animals flood around massive eating joints that were meant for those who could afford this luxury. I see birds of different colours floating around with more freedom and singing their songs of love. I am overwhelmed by the different shades of leaves that are booming on a tree outside my house that was barren for so long. I see people who were distant sharing meals through their balconies and playing games with other families. Every child who used to play in isolation are now creating different art and videos using technology to motivate their peers. I see senior citizens passing letters from their vicinity and communicating about their life’s stories as a symbol of survival and victory. I am overwhelmed to observe our youth from my community waking up early in the morning and distributing essentials to the older generation and in the evening sitting and listening to their fascinating life’s experiences.
There are so many unanswered questions that feels complete by learning about these actions from us, humans. Humans have an innate urge to socialise but with the hassles of earnings, competitions and fulfilment of responsibilities in life they forget to nurture and value what they own in their social system. It’s this time that makes me realise my passion and power in mending those broken relationships that I had lost abruptly. This experience guides me in reflecting on my work and think of creative solutions in reaching my goals. I am overwhelmed with my learning to make friends with strangers and work in collaboration with the community for uplifting those who need our strength at the moment. I am overwhelmed by my reflections that is mentoring me to forgive those about whom I have held grudges from my past. It’s making me understand their unique personality and actions that has given me my beautiful life’s lessons, through which I gained autonomy and contentment.
The world at the moment is throwing its most challenging outbreak which even our ancestors wouldn’t have experienced in the historical past. It’s up to us in changing our observational outcook as we cannot control the situation. I am overwhelmed with the thought that we have created history and our future generation will study about our survival in their textbooks at this medical health phase. They will learn that with human’s nature also existed and it gave an opportunity to heal. The healing that moulded us with the thinking that we are created by nature and it’s our utmost social responsibility to protect our environment with the same zeal that we use to build ourselves.
These overwhelming experiences are nature’s way in making us more humane and understand that we are not individualistic but a holistic system and its time to strengthen our bonds in raising our community with more love and affection. It’s amazing to think that we as a global community with the best intellectuals from diverse fields and with newer resources are unable to tackle the situation. When we are isolated, nature blooms in its best form, our lost friends from the sea come to their homes, our trees that left their smiles find it back with the winds, our birds that migrated for peace comes back to their lands with new faith, our animals are now visiting their motherland with more grace and our earth is breathing and gaining strength to hold all of us again.
This journey has made me recognize my flaws and create a balance with my strengths. It made me understand the value of individuals in this phase of social distancing, it made me appreciate my work more that gave me a new identity, it motivated me to think that there is a new future coming up for me, it flourished me to reach my creative potentials and made me write and create my reflective paintings. Lastly this experience that is gifted by nature teaches me about the thought that I am not alone and there are those who I need to gift these experiences so that their journey becomes enriching and fruitful like mine. I owe my gratitude to my nature and I am waiting for her to heal and be transformed.
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