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The lockdown with a phone, kindle and brain waves

I have heard horrid stories about the lockdown that gripped the whole world for nearly five months. I have heard how restless people were to go out. Somehow for me, it was a time to detox my mind and let the brainwaves flow freely.

A stupid comparison, but I guess this was to me a time that was similar to the sages who spend time in the Himalayas to reflect upon life, the world and the role we play in the larger scheme of things.

Though I agree, I wasn't entirely saintlike. My mind was disrupted from time to time with some very vulgar and violent series from Netflix, some very abstract novels on Kindle and some delicious high calory home food.

My mind pondered over the rat race that we all are forced into, knowingly or unknowingly. The whole uselessness of our existence trying to show some people how successful we are and when how we dislike them in person. The whole life that is focused on worry as the prime driver and ruler. We are running for life from the fears that frighten us to death. Sounds like an oxymoron but that exactly the case with us.

I actually realised during this time that money is like nutritious diet. You need it to have a healthy growth and life. But when present and consumed in abundance leads to obesity and diseases. Most of us are sick in the head thinking and salivating over money that we don't know what to do with. We will probably watch some fancy ad for consumption that fuels and accelarates our own destruction risking the future of us and our children.

Another point of worry that occupied my mind was the rise of the machines in our lives. How dependent we are on them to help us live comfortably. Our comfort and discomfort is decided by the machines who are the terminators killing us slowly my making us dependent on them for every tiny need.

The lockdown is over. Well nearly. But in my mind it is just the beginning. The job losses, the despair, the rising poverty. And if you really think about it, the virus was just the matchstick, the dry leaves were created by us all around. Now that we see the world around and within us burning, can we change ourselves? 

Can we find a way to find peace within? Can we find ways to break the societal shackles we have created by unnecessary consumption. Can we breathe more free air? And live....

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