Quarantine State of Mind: Manage your thoughts
I have never and I mean NEVER felt so dejected yet my fingers show a certain kind of urgency to employ my all-over-the-place-thoughts into writing this. Every night, I put myself to sleep with a sheer dedication of making it to an early morning and I set the alarm clock to 8 o’clock. Hitting one after another snooze button, I finally say ‘good morning’ to myself at 10 o’clock with a heavy heart. Arghhh, another day home alone! Another day of scrolling down through social media! And mind you, it’s not a brief activity and goes on for like an hour or so.
Dragging my body towards the sink to wash away the loneliness, I devise a routine to follow up further. The rest of my day advances by cooking and sorting out excel sheets.
You must think I’m insane to be prattling on about this isolation whereas there are plenty of people exposed to these testing times who are having much more intense sufferings. I agree. While I sit in my room exercising my privileges, the affliction of the poorest seem to be incessant.
In fact, the severity of the COVID-19 situation has got each of us disturbed to the extent where we don’t know what the next day would bring. On some days, I put forward my best foot to have a great day all by myself. Other days, I read and reread the worst happening around the world. Well, it makes me sulk because sitting here in my house I’m unsure of how else should one approach and where else should one declare the empathy towards their fellow ones.
My take is to help yourself and then jump on the wagon to help others. The decision to uplift others will only be efficient if you drive your energies towards uplifting your own self first.
Here goes a checklist to get a little perspective if you’re as confused as I am:
- Eat healthy and take care of your body.
- Volunteer and donate.
- Check in on elderly and self-isolated people.
- Pay your house help.
- Consider thoroughly before taking any money related resolve.
Your generosity will find a way back.
To conclude, I can’t stress this enough that we are in this together and we must support each other. It’s time to show solidarity for we afloat in the same boat of the worst hit pandemic.
