Aakash Rohilla

Category: Life

  • I am afraid

    I am afraid

    “Need a bed in New Delhi.”

    “Need oxygen in Lucknow.”

    “Please help, only 45 mins oxygen remaining in hospital.”

    “Need plasma in Gurgaon.”

    “Need two doses of Remdesivir.”

    All I see on social media is people asking for help. Be it Facebook, be it Twitter, be it Instagram, things are in pretty bad shape. The medical infrastructure of our country has collapsed, and I am afraid. Every phone call comes with a truckload of anxiety. I pray to the power (or God) that if you are there, please make this stop! But it doesn’t work like that. We should have prepared for this. Our elected leaders should have evaluated the situation instead of rallies and declaring on Twitter that we won the COVID-19 war.

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  • Killing the social dilemma

    Killing the social dilemma

    I just opened my Netflix viewing history to check when did I watch The Social Dilemma. It has been 18 days. I watched it on 10th September 2020. I have been trying to limit my social media usage for quite a while now, and to be honest, I was struggling with it.

    After watching The Social Dilemma, I followed a few steps and would like to share them (or better document them, because no one reads this blog).

    The 15 mins value

    I had made my mind that I want to quit social media. I didn’t want to delete my accounts (you know because I may need them again), so I did a little, you can call it an experiment. I opened Facebook and scrolled for 15 minutes without any break. Then I made a list of things that I found in the 15 minutes scroll that may add some value to my life OR I would learn something from it, and I found ZERO things.

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