It's All About Finding The Calm In The Chaos........
- SRINIKHITA POLE
- Apr 19, 2020
- 5 min read
Corona might have totally fucked up our lives big time but the beauty of this virus is that it has cut down the unnecessary crap in our lives and gave us some actual shit to focus on. After all, what's more human than the fight for survival? We don't realize the importance of our lives until we are forced to do so and that's a human tendency. This virus has made us realize how difficult it is to save mankind. Lockdown might be the last thing for any normal person out there and none of us like to get ourselves locked in our homes with no signs of life outside but the hardest of the hardest times teach us things that may be nothing else can't. When someone pushes you into a sea u either drown and die or learn how to swim the hard way. Now that's what exactly we have to do. U just have to choose for yourselves. I chose to put up a fight against corona and see how far I can go. The point of telling you guys this whole thing was to let you know how I zeroed in on starting up my own personal blog.
Things went downhill when corona hit us hard. I was stuck in a three-sharing box size room inside my hostel in Chennai with no idea of what to do. It seemed like a dark tunnel with no light at the end of it. Amidst all this chaos I had almost forgotten my own birthday which was on the 22nd of March when our Prime Minister had urged the people of India to follow a Janta Curfew to fight Coronavirus. I had infinite plans for my birthday and all of those plans had one thing in common which was unlimited booze, partying hard with my friends and a road trip to somewhere I had never been to. I wanted to wake up on some beach with Smirnoff in my hand and the first rays of the sun falling on my face making me look natural and beautiful with all those flaws on my face that you tend to get with a no-makeup look and yeah not to forget with my friends wishing me happy birthday you cute little bunny. None of this happened. What happened was a nationwide lockdown. For a while yes I felt low for not having got to celebrate my birthday the way I wanted to but then reality hit me hard. The hostel where I was staying in Chennai had started looking like some ghost house because everyone had left for their respective hometowns. My roommate who was from Kerala had started packing her bags and I was pretty confused as to what to do because my home was in Kolkata and there was no way I could get back home immediately because the flight tickets had started shooting up and none of the flights were direct. On top of that, there was pressure from my university to submit my dissertation by Monday. Emotions took control and I had stopped thinking from my mind. It was not about what was right and what was wrong but about what was more feasible - staying locked at a place where you don't know anyone and not even their language with zero percent guarantee or staying locked at a place where you had spent most of your childhood with some hope. The entire hostel was vacant except for me and my other roommate who was from Lucknow. We both had no idea of what was coming and how we were supposed to act. It just looked like a deep tunnel without an end to it. The only option that was left was to reach back home by the next available flight before the states announced a state-wide lockdown. So, the next thing which I and my roommate did was to book a flight that was direct which was quite a challenge because all the available flights were not going direct but via something because of the increase in demand of flight tickets and the increasing need of people to reach home that too safely. Flights had suddenly become the new superheroes of India as they were getting people back home amidst the virus scare by putting their own lives as risk and by operating more than usual flights. After all that I had experienced in Chennai I had finally managed to reach home on Monday the 23rd of March and so did my roommate who went on Tuesday.
The next big challenge that was in front of me was what am I supposed to do locked at home the entire day which I am sure many of us have and are facing still now. I had never imagined that I would actually face a situation someday where staying at home locked was the best solution to protect myself and my family. Life for me had been more about traveling wherever possible, meeting new people who were complete strangers, discovering a café or restaurant that had started trending on social media with friends, getting drunk as fuck, trying all kinds of booze, struggling to stay fit and be on the lower side of the weighing scale ever since I had lost weight, struggling to survive in my university amidst people whose language seemed like Hebrew to me and managing to get good grades by working my ass off and yeah managing to buy a dress or two at Zara at the most reasonable price and feel like as if I had just received some trophy for doing that but this virus made me change my viewpoint and my perception and understanding about the word LIFE. I realized life isn’t about regretting things we had done or wanted to do at some point in time but it is all about enjoying the small moments and making the most out of it as if there was no tomorrow. For 3 years I had been running to chase something which I guess I don’t know. This lockdown gave me the much needed time to connect with my family, to connect with myself and stay still for a while. Well having said that I don’t feel quite good about the lockdown because for a month I am just locked inside the campus and I don’t quite seem to know the outer world anymore but what I feel good about is that I feel close to myself now. Finally, my parents are trying to know their daughter the way she wanted them to. I can hear the birds chirping outside the window of my room which otherwise wasn’t quite possible because of the honking of cars outside. The moon looks much more beautiful and nature is at its best now. I know it is pretty difficult to stay within the four walls of your home for months and everyone has their own little theory pertaining to this lockdown but why don’t we just try to see the brighter side of it. Nature is healing itself and people are getting more time to work on themselves. Spanish has been a language that I had always been trying to learn since I was 19 but somehow I never got the time to do so because something or the other used to come up but now I am actually trying to learn it and practice it every day as much as I can. I am just using this time to do things which I had always wanted to like learning Spanish, sometimes singing a bit and recording them to see if I still have it in me, trying to do some certificate courses to flaunt my CV and yes getting back to NETFLIX and catching up on some of the most popular series.
I don’t know how well will I be able to pull off this experiment of writing up a blog but what I know is that maybe yes I don’t know how to come up with catchy titles and content but I will learn the art of writing with time and keep getting better at it. Stay tuned for some exciting content up here. Till then be safe and keep others safe!!!!!

nice article regarding the major issue #Corona
Overall, it's good. You conveyed your perception about coronavirus. I really liked the way you understood about the word LIFE. I hope everyone like this blog.