Dear Coronavirus,
I know you are flourishing day by day, extending your root
to the entire country, having a world tour, getting lots of attention but hatred as
well. Well to be honest I don’t hate you because I know it was not your
intention to enter and boom our lives. You came accidentally; to be honest, you
were invited. I know you must be happy living inside bats but humans dragged you
unnecessarily and then started the blame game. From snakes, bats, dogs to humans, you
always got your host easily. Your life must not be as tough as ours!
I don’t understand I should thank you for unexpected college holidays,
for extra hours of sleep, I get in the morning, for Daddy’s free evening hours with
family, for controlling pollution, for making us realize that we can give up junks,
for making us watch Ramayana and Mahabharata, for uniting India or dislike you
for killings lots of people worldwide.
Hey, tell me one thing don’t you feel bad when we curse you,
don’t you feel ashamed when we troll you, don’t you cry when we pray to get rid
of you, and don’t you feel any hesitation while taking lives. I guess you must
be. Don’t you find it funny that the economy is cracking because we are buying
only essentials? You made us realize that it takes a very few pennies to
survive, a lot to show off.
Family finally! |
You gave us so much, a lot of family time, a lot of experiences,
funny jokes over you, so much of time from our everyday busy schedules,
chances to cook, and most of all a mirror of ourselves. During this lockdown
period, I got to observe things in a little different way. I discovered Dad is
not much strict, he is funny sometimes. My brother can actually cook well, sister
is not that bad withdrawing and I can dance too. I got time to feel the stories
of grand mum about the essence of life and mom is finally taking some rest from the dual shift of office and kitchen. Oh dear corona, I must be grateful to you for these entire things we were dying for but not getting time.
But, is lockdown the same for everyone? I am thankful to my
parents that they saved some money and feeding us like any normal days. What about
others? What about that uncle who used to pull rickshaw? What about that uncle
who had a cloth store and what about Laxmi aunty, our maid? Oh no, they must be
hungry or they must be praying for normal days. They must be cursing you.
How could I forget that policeman uncle, who still goes on
duty, and that Doctor aunty who treat patients by risking her life? How could
they work so selflessly? He must have warned people not to go outside
unnecessarily and she must have cried over dying patients. Their family must be
worried about them every single minute. In that case, will they able to enjoy
lockdown like us? No, I guess.
I got some short stories for you, few are worth giving
goose-bumps, some made me proud and some were intensely sad.
On 22nd March, everyone whether common people or
VIPs, rich or poor, children or elderly rang bells, clapped like crazy, and blew conches to
appreciate warriors fighting against you.
Do you remember the night of 5th
April, when 1.3 crore people lighted diyas, candles, as well as flashlights at 9 pm for 9
minutes to shun your darkness on just one appeal of Prime Minister?
Better days will come, stay home. |
Donations
in PM cares funds in such a huge amount. Wasn’t
that a mesmerizing? How
differently-abled workers stitched most needed PPE kits for health workers. Wasn’t
that a proud moment? The way Gurudwaras and temples are volunteering to help
fight against you. An ailing father on his shoulder, a man in Kerala walked
nearly a kilometers on his way home from the hospital due to lockdown. Do you
know the story of 18-year-old Minnoli Aya who lost her mother Dr. Madhvi Aya
who worked Woodhull hospital in New York? In Chhattisgarh, nurses had to mother
a Covid-19 patient’s 3-month-old child at AIIMS, Raipur. Isn’t that sad?
I wish you can feel
their pain, you can see the tears of families of those 600 people whom you
killed.
Please don't ruin my college farewell party. I don't want to get graduated through "zoom".
I miss my friends, I miss my colleagues. I hope you will go back soon.
Thank you!!
This is superb!
ReplyDeleteCute and lovely message to all of you
ReplyDeleteBohot bdhya mishra ji😊🥰
ReplyDeleteWell written sister!
ReplyDeleteVery well expressed...awesome...just keep the spirit....
ReplyDeleteNice blog
ReplyDeleteGreat Sakshi, keep writing
ReplyDeleteWonderful
ReplyDeleteFabulous mam😍
ReplyDeleteDear writer,
ReplyDeleteYou wrote a very precise writings. That's pretty good n actual what's happening & happened before.
Wish you all the best Cadbury!!
Regards,
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It have many positive impact.But it is also true that it had filled our with full of fear.It had even ruined our farewell.😅😅😅😅😁
ReplyDeleteReally acknowledge it 👍👍
ReplyDeletePlausible 🤟👍
ReplyDeleteThank you!😊😍
DeleteHa yrr ye zoom aap bahut hi bekar hai out sider aap hai files access kar leta hai may be news me aya hai, wo college ke dost, wo hostel ki life bus 2 months bache the enjoy ke liye sab bekar ho gaya college khul jata to phir se saare dost mil jaate miss you so much 😭😭😭😭 fairwell bhi khatam yaise lagata hai ,ye boaring aap zoom hatawo 4 saal ki dosti thi yu hi bekar ho rahi hai ab sayad college ki life enjoy na kar payege thank you so much sakshi ye baate jo likhi sabse man me tha per koi kisi se share nahi kiya tumne kiya keep it up and God bless you yaise hi aage badhro 🤝
ReplyDeleteHaha! You felt the drift. By the way thank you.
DeleteFablous... blog sakshi but corona is not good thing, it is evil. It's just people themselves had maintained such complex life of showoff and false appearance before this coronavirus, many might continue now too. In the greed for money, many people had lost their self esteem, some lost their selflessness to service which is again remembered by many people in this difficult time.
ReplyDeleteWow...Mishra Ji
ReplyDeleteAwesome work👍🏻
Well expressed👌🏻
Amazing👏🏻
Keep writing..👏🏻
Very well written Sakshi! ❤️
ReplyDeleteYour writing is beautiful and you've mentioned some really important little things that we'd been missing out on in our normal days.
Thank you ma'am!
DeleteYou have written that down beautifully.connected to my heart
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ReplyDeleteWonderful, highly impressive mam, you are great, hope this corona scenario gets over soon, so that all the needs for the generstion gets fulfilled.
ReplyDeleteWonderful write up Sakshi. It has many tiny elements that we have heard on news channels and then switched to the next one. You have brilliantly put the thoughts in a neat manner.
ReplyDeleteIt is commendable.
Cute combination of words and thoughts ��
ReplyDeleteDont you feel about the nature which we are distroying for our own benifits.... We had disbalanced the nature for our infinite selfish need.... Now chinivirus🤣 is balancing nature and taking it to equilibrium but this is not were it should stop... There are few more lessons which is to be teach like humanity... Love...respect love towards animals... Discipline etc.and Dont be worry about those who was working on daily wages....governments are doing there job even There are a lot of people who is consistantly helping them....
ReplyDelete..Dont worry we will live life as previously we were living with a new lesson with hope human will restrain it for the centenary
Superbly composed and impressive lines.great work.
ReplyDeleteAmazing work
ReplyDeleteIntriguing
ReplyDeleteMind-blowing sweetheart
ReplyDeleteGood work sakshi
ReplyDeleteSuperb
ReplyDeleteAll the words are beautifully selected Sakshi...well done my dear
ReplyDeleteNice write-up
ReplyDeleteGood to be a part of such activities
ReplyDeleteNice best wishes
ReplyDeleteI must congratulate you on your first ever blog. No one can guess that it is your first post. Infact, it is written professionally with easy words and correct sentence structures. The presentation is amazingly beautiful. For content you deserve 10 out of ten. Tons of congratulations. God bless you.
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Elite Effortless English
This is fab sweetheart... Proud of You..
ReplyDeleteNice article..
ReplyDeleteVery nice blog..
ReplyDeleteGopika
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.... an eloquent and very well written article...Good to see u like this...keep going on like this dear
Superr sakshi
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteYou present the things very well.
ReplyDeleteA letter to Corona is indeed an interesting thing to read
ReplyDeleteYou write with such heart. It’s beautiful! The sentence that really spoke to me was “it takes a very few pennies to survive, a lot to show off”. In England we found the same, focusing on simple pleasures was a surprisingly lovely outcome from this difficult time.
ReplyDeleteOf course you’re right too that the virus doesn’t feel bad or evil, it just seeks a host to continue its survival. Then when that host dies, the virus dies too. A virus doesn’t seek to kill, it seeks to find a host it can survive on. But our desire to label things as good or evil only destroys our peace of mind. It just is. We just are. Neither good nor evil, we all seek to survive as long as we can.
I enjoy your writing & your perspective. Thank you for sharing your blog with me! I will follow you xx
very nicely summarised our experience during corona time.
ReplyDeleteGreat work, I love your perspective and the emotion you put into your writing. Well done!
ReplyDeleteLovely one. But I strongly wish that you don't receive a reply from the addressee. Stay blessed.
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful- a different perspective. I urge everyone to read it. You will be enlightened.
ReplyDeleteYup! Hopefully after Corona everybody will be a lot closer to each other!
ReplyDeleteGreat article. It is very difficult to protect psychology, especially during the coronavirus process. However, those who evaluated this process well gained significant distances in terms of personal development. This is truly an awesome event. I hope the future will be better.
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