Writing after a rather short break now. Time is not an issue, but sometimes it seems very futile. I mean let's admit it, no one's ever going to read it. Don't know when Google decides to close blogger as people now tweet, retweet and share. Not many have to patience to write and read lengthy articles or posts. Definitely not something written by a fairly average person like me. But anyways hope Blogger sticks around and I can still comeback and see my posts decade from now.
Assuming I am alive till then..
Yes, in last one year I have come to realize how big of an assumption life is. It is fickle, it is unpredictable and it can be cut short anytime. We are now living in the times of Corona Virus. Almost 1.5 years since this virus has wreaked havoc on the world. Different people have different claims over its origin, spread and affects. I am neither a scientist not a doctor so all that I can do is protect myself and my family at all cost. Thankfully there is a vaccine now, and it is currently effective in most of the cases/variants/mutations, if not all. My parents got their doses. I got mine. Still worried about my Younger brother and his wife in India, also worried sick about my daughter, There is no vaccine yet for kids and whilst they had better resistance to the virus in first wave, the second wave seems to be more deadly. Predictions are that a third wave can be catastrophic to kids. I can just hope that majority of the people are vaccinated and we all collectively get herd immunity before the third wave approaches..
The virus has caused a train wreck of a damage in India. Everyone I talk to back home knows somebody who has died due to the virus. In my previous post I had mentioned my best friend loosing his father. Little did I knew that I would myself loose two of my own uncles. My father's younger brother and his oldest brother in law succumbed to the virus. Lost a distant cousin from my mother side, an office colleague (old manager actually, who also figures in one my old posts about iPhones). One very close friend lost his pregnant wife to this virus as well. If this was not enough I also lost a recently found running mate Colonel Vinay in a road accident. That friendship ended before it could even start. At one point of time this month when I heard about the death of my friend's wife, I just broke down completely. Started sobbing like a baby. Honestly I just couldn't take it. It was like, god how many more faces will go permanently. Above all, the fear of losing more and losing up close. This is no longer a lockdown where people sit at home and play Ludo online. This is now people arranging oxygen and meds so that their son, father, mother, daughter, wife, husband can live.
But there is a ray of hope. The vaccine drive is going in full swing. A good chunk of people have realized how important it is to get vaccinated, follow social distancing and also how useless our entire political leadership is. A good chunk by the way, not all of them.
I can just pray for the well being of myself, my loved ones and the whole Humanity. Hope God has still not given up on us. Here's to a hope that my next post can be a bit more cheerful.
Thanks for your patient reading (if at all anyone did)
Tinu...
