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Hey hey, I know I am not supposed to be spreading doom and gloom when one of the hardest years that modern mankind has ever faced is finally coming to an end. But it’s an honest question. The year is almost over but what about everything else? And let me be clear I am not even talking about global warming, farmers’ protest, political unrest, and terrorism etc. I am talking about our mental chaos.
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This year has been a lesson in empathy and mental well-being. This year taught us that the people whom we so publicly despise are the reason that we are somehow holding it together. Not being able to interact, touch, communicate IRL has made us realise that it makes our emotional and mental health go MIA. COVID 19 will be controlled and we will eventually be vaccinated and we will be able to go back to the lives we left behind. But do we really want nothing to change? At all?
Here’s a list of things that I would personally believe would benefit mankind if they don’t remain the same:
Global Warming
Genocide
Gun violence
Terrorism
Inequity in every sphere of life
Crimes against women and children and animals
Animal abuse
I know I said I wasn’t gonna talk about exactly these things but hey, I digress. The point is, how do we create a reality that we feel good to be a part of? I was never happy in my job, in my relationships, in my rented apartments, in everything in life. This pandemic made me move back home with my parents and my very cute dog and made me fucking count my blessings, for real, every single day. It made me realise how and why none of my previous relationships worked in my life. I had a lot of time to think about things and finally figured out what exactly I want to do with my life and how. I started working on myself, physically and mentally. And just like a lot of us, I started therapy. Phew! That was a great self indulgent rant but now back to the point. There will be a day when things will start to look normal and on that day, you will ask yourself, Did I resolve my issues when I had the time and mental capacity to do so? Did I realise the value of the abundance that I have (or had) around me? Was I grateful for my health and my family? Do I cherish the little joys in life? Do I find happiness in the present moment? And if on that day, you manage to answer all these questions in the affirmative, then boy, you’ve won! As clichè as it might sound, the journey does matter. And for probably the first and hopefully the last time in our lives, we are face-to-face with uncertainty. Uncertainty about jobs, friendships, relationships, and most of all, life. We don’t know if we will live to see another day. So what the hell is stopping us from living in the moment? Because we might get a vaccine but regardless, tomorrow is never promised.
In conclusion, the only way to rest the chaos in our lives is to pause, reflect, and live in the now because tomorrow may, quite literally, never come.
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