Category: Life
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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.
“Jis pe guzarti hai, ussi ko pata hai.” (Only those who go through it, knows the pain)
Just found out that Vivek’s mother died. Vivek and I used to live in the same neighborhood. He is probably two-three years older than me. His mother died a few days after taking the first dose of the vaccine. She had tuberculosis. All the clinical trials, innovation, speed, and research mean nothing to the family now. I ask myself, “Would she still be alive if she had better medical assistance,” or “if she had banged that thaali a little harder?
Generally, watching a film helps me take my mind off things, but it’s not working here. I have never in my life felt so helpless. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to help.
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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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The bees problem
You ever heard of The bees problem?
No, not the actual beekeepers’ problem. We are not talking about that here. I don’t know where I read this but I remember the crux of it.
Consider, all your aspirations are bees. Now our mind is such that we want to achieve a lot of things in life. You may want to write, but at the same time, you may want to learn How to pilot a plane. There is no end to our aspirations. Although, it’s a good thing, but do you want to become a jack of all trades, and MASTER OF NONE.
Learning a thing or acquiring a new skill demands your undivided attention, and although it may look daunting in the beginning but things will fall into places if you keep at it.