Lock down Learnings #2
Lessons
from the lockdown:
Self-
awareness: the dictionary meaning of this term is –“conscious knowledge
of one's own character and feelings”.
This lockdown has
ensured that people have become a better or worse person than before. People
have discovered hidden potential, skills, talents, the goodness in them, the
humanity in them, the self-sufficiency in them, the contentment in them. Sadly
this lockdown has also brought out the animal, the monster, the low life in
some who proved that the idle mind is a devil’s workshop.
Work from home has
had many spin offs, from spending more time with and for the family despite the
work, it also showed that the work at home needs to be given enough priority
for the well-being of all. Gender roles are being redefined: wholly, partially
or not all depending on where one falls in the range mentioned in the earlier
paragraph.
Personally the
biggest wake-up call for me is the realization that a lot of my time, energy
and money were being spent on non-essentials and not enough time for the really
essential things in life. Making do with little, making do with what is on
hand, judicious use of resources and sharing what is available made me realize
that in the end the essentials will do. Not surprisingly I found that the
internet, the mobiles, laptops and the television have crept up the rankings
into essential things for home. These 50
odd days has shown how inhuman the central government must be for having imposed
a blockade for a state of our nation without internet and commerce for a very long
period.
The lockdown may
have taught us self-awareness of how much better or worse we can be from the
avatar we used to have in the pre lockdown days. The big choice that is now
before us is when things become the new normal; will we continue to be in our
new normal?
Our normal was quite similar to what it is now (nearly). Of course we sometimes miss going out otherwise we are usually home-bound people. My husband is quite happy and I sometimes do get a bit claustrophobic. One realisation - I thought that now there would be time to read and watch films but alas! I was proven wrong. Doing all the housework, I am left with no energy for anything else so not much of reading/writing/films but yes I do enjoy the feeling that time is not controlling me.
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