COVID-19: A harsh lesson...
...that offers us an opportunity to course correct! Call me over-cautious, paranoid, blind believer; I truly think the lock-down request order is indeed going to be useful and therefore, we as a family, have kept ourselves within our house walls for as long as we could. We step out once a week, only to buy groceries, not too far away from our place and at the time of the day when the crowd is likely to be less. Whenever we go, the outside air seems to be so fresh, birds seem happier [not sure if it's just our dreams, we seem to witness some new birds], roads are mostly empty, no honking sound and everything around feels serene. Elsewhere, I heard from someone very reliable that dolphins have come close to the shore and they all seem to be absolutely thrilled to have been given the freedom. And here we are having to surrender the freedom gifted to us, albeit temporarily as all of us like to believe. While we can complain as much as we want about the virus playing havoc i...