7-04-20
Laziness is an art understood only by
its practitioners, so on day 13 of the lock down I chose to give rest to myself(another
way of saying I was lazy). I let the productivity drop and did only what was absolutely
required, and that is much these days including sharing home chores with my
better self.
Day 14 had all alarms ringing including from
deadlines set at start of the week, the day flew by like it had only few hours instead of
normal 24 hours. With alarms also came a whiff of our lock down exit strategy being
muddled across the system. Keep it on for ever (till all is normal) to our Cassandras
of permanent loss of demand in economy, saying let’s go and open come rain, *&*%#.
Everyone had a view in private & those who have a voice on social media
also gave their version. We head into next few days eagerly trying to find out
what happens next. Finally, our system will do needful and make a decision rooted
in ground reality and not on abstract charts, models and opinions. We can and
should wait for the system to speak. We need to understand that in these trying
times our system is the only thing working for us. Radical solutions, hypothesis
cannot work in a country with1.3 billion citizens and diversity that even a
super computer cannot comprehend.
I keep coming across, why do the poor
not listen to Govt and come out in lock down. To all of them I have a
suggestion “Lock all your family in a room of 100 Square feet and stay in it for
8 hours I.E eat, sleep and work in that room (mind you most of families also
cook, bath and wash clothes within this area. “ . After this experience put
yourself in shoes of an average Mumbai shanti family and imagine doing this for
21 days. If even after understanding this one continues to sprout wisdom of privileged,
then you sir have arrived in La La land. May the supreme being bless you with
commonsense for your future as you already have wisdom in abundance.
I also came across another instance of privileged
behavior of middle-class early morning, yes you are right our legions of ocean
churners are getting stronger. But this time unfortunately they ran into a
police patrol in our township. The exasperated police officers asked them why
are they out? Do they understand the risk they are taking? Finally, the
frustration took over and few ocean churners were made to sit in van, for
onwards transfer to local beat/station. To add to police officers wonder, a
youngster on scooter yelled at them for not letting him go. This being Mumbai police,
they only locked his scooter and let him go( Imagine if this was Uttar Pradesh).
Other churners were also asked to double up into their societies instead of
being taken to station. Here is my take, instead of just lighting candles,
which is easy to do, my suggestion for most of us would be observe the law of
land. Practice what you preach or just keep your nonsense to yourself.
Keep safe and go out only when absolutely
necessary.
Here are few articles I read and enjoyed
Adding photos of cat being fed in our building & of a tree in all its glory in Municipal garden in front
of our flat
well said, follow the system for everyones sake and your own sake.
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