Lockdown is realization of being alive...
Social distance:
When lockdown was announced we started having conversations with so many people around us. We eventually did video calls, conference calls & what not. We even connected to remote friends & family aswe were sharing same feelings like sudden fear, care & empathy. Few days later we stopped having conversations with most & came down to few selective people. In the middle of lockdown, we have very few people those who value our life style. This social distancing made us very clear with choices of people as well; in daily lifestyle we might not have realized so easily but now that we have time for ourselves. Finally we started understanding distance that we should keep being social.
Minimalist approach:
Materials don’t value that much today as most of the materials you can’t experience rather they are not priorities now. As they say - only essentials will be available maybe that’s the only thing we ever needed. New Kurti, new pair of shoes & fashion trends has become outdated in this lockdown days. Craze of first day first show, now there is no show. New café, restaurants & bars are part of most of us but now we might think twice before visiting crowd pulling places. This has forced us to think in the lines of what is required, what is not & and what we want .It is more about essential things ¬ about thelifestyle. Now owning the most expensive or trending phone or even a car is beyond anyone’simagination.
As current situation is telling us that, we should value what we have. That is a type of minimalism.
Reading of current affairs:
As every situation teaches us something new, for me reading current affairs become more crucial. Looking into news all the time by giving vital attention to international statements & Governments decisions have become the integral part of our daily life. Most of us never have realized how many people live on daily wages pattern.
Most Important is Survival:
I have been thinking about maintaininga frugallifestyle since last 2 years. But in our struggle to gain status, money&materials output, we have massed up everything. We feel great when we accomplish our dream of owning things. Satisfying our ego with getting what we want, having a feeling that we have full control over our life. In actual sense when we come veryclose to survival, its then we realize all that we have- makes no sense, all that we have understood in these years- makes us very vulnerable to circumstances, leading to even more frustration. In current situation we are helpless. The good thing is that we have realized that survival is the most important thing above anything that we were doing.
Most Productive time for human race:
It is the moment to give time to your thinking, who you are, what we live for & what we really looking for in our life. Develop a skill or may be enhance it. Try something new in itself. Read Write Workout Eat Cook , Sing Dance & most importantly feel alive…
This is the most productive time of human race to think & give a thought to air that we are breathing. No generation ever got this close to extinction... no generation had a chance to access such a massive information sitting at one place just through a single medium called internet... No generation of human race was dominated by any other species on this earth before...
No one ever got a chance to fight for others & fight for themselves by just being at one place.....
No generation ever got so close to oneself…
This is the moment, when we realize the fact that nothing is above our life.
Think about it...