SHIFTING PARADIGMS THROUGH A PANDEMIC : PART 5 - 3 min read

“Unearth the Possibilities – Unfold your Core” 

                                            

           “It's never too late to begin again”, honestly, I only survived by returning to the starting point; often, despite reaching the finish line. Yet why does it feel so difficult every time? Is it because we have to make a choice; to focus on coming out enhanced or to stay back or worse go reverse? Beginnings end now and the end begins here; so we hope to come out of the Covid19 nightmare not just better but transforming into more than we can envisage!

            Let us be like new leaves and dew-kissed flora armed with kind words on our lips, priceless skills around our fingers and a spring in our feet. Can we cherish sitting on a park bench, listening to the wind rustling the tree leaves as soon as we can breathe free again? Could we pledge to find comfort in the first showers of the summer rains? Take a second to be grateful as the sun peeps through half-drawn blinds and the moon shines into our quiet nights. Will the sound of waves crashing against the shore excite us more than the buzz of grandiose shopping malls? Would we find joy in the smell of new books, the crispy flicker of unused copies? How will we respond to the heady fragrance of seasonal flowers and the flavour of plain food? Are we willing to find contentment wherever we look?

           Be brave to remove non-essentials from your life but forgive each person who has depleted you. Sounds tough? Make it tougher; include the people who have revealed that you don’t mean much to them. Then build in therapy, return to who you thought was unimportant especially those waiting from afar, as you mean the world to them. In your hurry to revert to normal, pause and consider what is worth rushing to.

 

            Life is uncertain and unpredictable. We don’t know when we will close our eyes forever. Time may be short to love someone from our core so let’s not waste a single moment nurturing enmity with the ones we adore. It is futile to rear resentment on things that don’t matter more than our relationships. What matters is how much you treasured when you had the time, the amount you cherished a relationship when you could. So haste, create and foster healthy associations; consider comprehending your Creator in humility to adjust your ways.

 

            Look up, smile and follow your dreams hoping to make a difference. Forgive and learn something novel about those who hurt you. Have you felt torn apart and pulled down? Been conspired against and shaken? Have the courage, be inspired. Do what you always wanted to, say sorry, be brilliant and put your past behind. The last but never the least, take the risk to return injury with kindness; or hostility will never turn to goodwill.

  

         The tiny virus taught us without a doubt that the world to come must be very different from mostly what it has been thus far. Time to leave the past and assumptions that convinced we are doing enough and fine. Even if it means taking drastic steps, the task of doing the ordinary, extraordinarily, is, therefore, the ultimate lesson from the Coronavirus pandemic to the world.