Covid & Culture

Until few weeks back, life was commonly seen as overscheduled, machine dominated and sometimes soulless. People were spending money they didn’t have, bought things they didn’t need, impress people they didn’t like, postponing improving health etc..what a poor way to live!!

Often, a bad example teaches us more about who we wish to become than a good one could ever provide. And in this world of so many hardened human beings who have lost access to who they truly are while considering themselves the most superior specie and in some cases god.

Covid and lockdown has exposed people to do-it-yourself culture which earlier was to be watched online or usually ignored. It has created another model of rat race, the digital, which includes webinars, teleconferences etc on various platforms. Both of it, lot of people will find it really difficult as most are used to have someone doing it for them. Humans, as we know surely will find a way to crack this so that blame n burden shifts to someone else. The usual mediocre mentality.

One major positive aspect of Covid - social distancing - has arrived. Which again will be nearly impossible to implement as people are not self-regulated and are habitual of stacking on to one another in markets & public transport (metro, bus, air), refuse to understand how to stand in a queue, least bothered about distancing despite so much promotion & threat. Everyone know that in absence of medical facilities & medicine for Covid we have to live with it, but don’t want to change their behaviors & habits. Especially shameless liquor connoisseurs made a mockery of social distancing & lockdown to hoard the booze.

Since it is a matter of time and not if but when. This nuisance will be short lived as we have seen nature rebooting itself. So, taking care of basics should become the new normal while other things are optional.

However, it’s yet another reminder that nature is supreme & history isn’t kind to people who play god.