How well are we pretending, ALL IS WELL?

So apparently, the lockdown period is extended for the third time and now finally, it seems like everyone is losing it. *coughs*

Losing the sense of belonging-ness, spirituality and to be what we actually are. If we are saying that we are doing okay, then we are probably lying to ourselves. Okay, let’s look slightly more into the context.

*With a grin on my face, I write*

Haven’t we all, atleast for once, asked some of the most famous how, when and where’s to ourselves? Like what our future is going to be after all this is over? How are we going to manage if this gets worse? The economy is crashing and the world is probably at the verge of 1930’s Great Depression 2.0, hence the unemployment. That our parents should just stay safe and if any of our parent is going out for work, they might just come back alone without taking even a slight touch of that stupid virus.

If even one of them has passed your mind ever or relating to it, then my friend, in the world of this havoc pandemic we are dealing with our own battle of insecurities.

This is not something I am writing to unlatch the steering of your self confidence that you were holding for so long, no please no, but just to tell a small story of how well we are pretending.

The upper portion of this picture attached, is being taken from my morning walk in the park near me way back when I didn’t even know there was a word named “lockdown” in the vocabulary. I did not even bother to think that this could get better or even worse, this was the new normal for me.

And then one day the nation was announced lockdown, and now everyone had to find comfort in Ramayana and Mahabharata, then their Roadies and Splitsvillas.

I stand in my balcony one day earphones plugged-in, looking nowhere and into nothingness, I find these bushes glowing. The sun is more brighter today and the sky has owned its own color. Birds no longer takes permission, to fly freely and that augmenting flowers made my day, instantaneously. And while pondering about this, I realize that the song ‘Aaj kal Zindagi’ from Wake up SID has almost come to an end which I didn’t even listen. Sometimes your thoughts can be too loud for anything else to be heard.

So then, I asked myself- Were they all pretending to be just fine, but the actual truth of them to be happy is now.

We are living in a world of pretence. Pretence of calling us just fine, to muffle ourselves from the bad and pretend that we just don’t hear. Like these bushes who adapted themselves teary and non-flourishing, and even made us to believe that this is their “originality”, we might be doing as similar as that, to our own selves.

The planet is in a big need of healing and we owe to it big time. So let’s just be patient and let it take it its time to heal in peace. Till then let’s just get out of that pretentious world we are living in, who knows what might surprise us.