Covid- 19- Is it High Time We Started a Journey Back?

The world is witnessing one of the most dangerous pandemics and we are being victims of so called lockdown,isolation, quarantine and social distancing for the very first time in our life.Completing more than a month in lock down,the current question that would be disturbing all of us is ‘ what’s next’?..We are sure that this mishap will end.But we are unsure of its duration to culminate or abate.
Everything is going to change after Covid 19 and what matters here is our resilience.It includes our life style,economy and everything that is related to us.We are slowly getting back to our tradition and culture and is getting aside from the clutches of Western culture.Even after the lockdown,we will be hesitant to eat pizzas and burgers and will prefer normal rice and curry ,which is purely home made. From now on,the masks and sanitizers will become a part and parcel of our life ,like the pot of water and a towel kept in the front courtyard of Indian houses long before,for cleaning up oneself before entering the house.
We are going to depend more on online shopping,asking the delivery boy to keep the things on the doorstep and leave.Our banking will be more digitalized and social media will be the only platform for us to get connected with our dear and near ones.We will bid adieu to shake hands and hugs, and will pave the way for ‘ Namaskara/ Pranam’ (holding the hand together and wishing).
Hopefully we will become self reliant , cultivating the crops and vegetables in our own land,whatever be the availability of space.This is surely going to transform Kerala from the status of a consumer state to a producer state.
For an unpredictable period,marriages ,rituals, festivals etc are going to be very simple,unlike the extravaganza we made all these years.As far as the educational system is concerned,its going to be completely ” Academia on the go”.
Now on everybody will respect the health department and will have to obey their instructions if we need to get out of this and to save us from digging our own sepulchres.
The prominent among all these changes would be the resilient power of Nature ,which was possible only because of the complete lock down of the mankind.
I believe that Covid 19 is a harbinger from God,who is warning us against all the excruciating things we have been doing to both our fellow beings and Nature for all these years.Covid 19 has taught us that not only in the eyes of God but also in the eyes of pandemics,all humans are equal irrespective of the caste,creed,money,and social status.
The saga of this pandemic will surely come to an end,its a hope.Lets be optimistic.We will get back to our lives.But it would be something much more different from what we had upto the initial phase of lockdown.And for this to happen we should be stringent in following the social distancing measures and only then we will be ‘ alive’ to experience the post pandemic world or else this will continue to be implacable and our destiny will be to succumb to death.