LIfe in the Lockdown

Sudden lockdown! Everyone is happy to have holidays. Hostelers have been sent to their respective homes, employees who are staying far away to their families reached their hometowns, and that continued till the lockdown has influenced the transport system.

The first month, with all the fear of COVID-19, people have locked their doors and spent all the days with their families with ultimate joy. Then, our respected Prime minister, Narendra Modi announced the second lockdown to control the virus spread. This was the time where people started realizing to use the time productively to continue their holidays at home. Mothers and sisters started cooking, father & brothers also started to do some other beneficial work. Later on, worsening the state of the corona, Prime minister Modi extended the lockdown again to the next 21 days. This was the time where people started craving for the outside world and junk foods. Slowly people started to sense that this virus is going to kill all the people and there will be no end to it. Simultaneously, over time, folks got accustomed to this pandemic. When the cases were very less, people were scared to step out as if they were going to lose all their property. Now, the cases are not even having a limit and people are seeking freedom to roam on roads.

Coming to the life of hostelers, I have got classification on their age basis. The classification goes like children and college students. The children would be very happy until they get home works and assignments online from their teachers. In this case, children’s parents have to worry more than the children to bear with them all the long holiday. The college students are very happy to stay at home. Some students just realized they have got some time to spend with their family like a true family member but not like a regular relative what they have become for years. And the bitter truth is that they failed to recognize that they used to visit their home only for festivals. Some students are spending time with their mobiles and Netflix instead of making some memories with their parents and siblings. This may not be the mistake of them but the mistake of the life which the hostel has given to them from their 11th grade. Blaming the technology for youth using the mobiles rather than their brains is going to be another story to write about. On the other side of the shore, students who have got a strict family are just stuck with their family rules & regulations to get restricted by and not to use mobile for a while. Finally, all the students are having time to use purposefully and to waste it for useless things as well. Just reminding, “ Choice is always yours dear students! ”

Coming to the mothers, they are always the best. The word BEST may not be enough for them, the language experts need to invent a new word instead. The quality of patience is making them cook and work for us restlessly. We may never have a good day without mothers. Fathers are a way different from mothers. They have a particular quality to share our responsibility. They are always our spine to support us. Siblings are meant to fight but not to remain distanced because of the anger they have got in their quarrels. All the fellow humans who have your father for sustenance, who have your mother to pamper you, who have your sibling to talk with, whenever you feel boredom to spend time with them, just imagine the life of a single parent-child and single child without a sister or brother to fight within their life.

Discussing all these things which mostly boosts you up to live life with doubled energy is just one side of the lockdown. The other side of the lockdown would be the life of people who lost their income source, who did not have enough money to feed the families, who are not facilitated with required needs not to stay happy at least to stay healthy. Before you cry that you want to shop, imagine a girl who belongs to a poor family influenced by this lockdown can’t afford money to get a sanitary napkin for her period. Before you tell you are waiting to eat burgers in McDonald’s, imagine a kid crying for a bun in this lockdown.

Many of us saw and heard the deaths of COVID-19 but very few know the deaths of hunger. Many cover the news of celebrities getting effected by corona but very few covers if a poor fellow dies of the corona. Many to write about a poor man who always has a great impact on any consequences in this country but very few who care about it. The other side of the lockdown does not end up here. It continues to the extent where no one can express in terms. We are provided many by life in this lockdown. Let us acknowledge them

Life in this lockdown helped us to introspect.
Life in this lockdown has given a chance to help our mother. Life in this lockdown has given us time to spend with family. Life in this lockdown has given us lots of cooking recipes.
Life in this lockdown has given us a way to learn new things. Life in this lockdown has given us creative ideas.
Life in this lockdown has allowed knowing the world.
Life in this lockdown made us realize that the USA is no way greater than our INDIA.
Life in this lockdown has given us several memories forever.
Life in this lockdown has made us recollect childhood memories.
Life in this lockdown has shown us that sitting and doing nothing is also hard.
Life in this lockdown has given a chance to know others by silly posts in social media.
Life in this lockdown made us avail internet for meaningful purposes.
Life in this lockdown has taught many lessons to the number of people.
Life in this lockdown made us miss people.