Well, it is no less than a fact that during lockdown, we have somewhere encountered a lockdown on relationships. In order to keep us safe, this lockdown has costed us our relations, the bonds we used to share with people who turned family from strangers.
Let’s go back to the time when two strangers met under odd circumstances. Neither of them knew that their daily talking will one day convert into sharing their deepest secrets. Neither of them knew that they have now became best friends for life. The only thing they know is that this is the person that I never want to lose in their life at any cost.
They both had literally no idea when their endless hours of talking, their non-stop bickering, their efforts to bring a smile on the other one’s face gave birth to a new bond, the bond which they vowed to never break under any circumstances.
Life is full of drama, ups and downs, and everyone has to deal with it; sometimes at the cost of our relations.
With all the ‘ups’ of life going right, now comes the devil, the ‘downs’, basically the testing period.
Here comes the entry of Covid-19, the major problem in all of our lives right now, the one who is testing us in basically each and every field.
Being trapped in a room for God knows how long slowly and gradually took away our basic understanding skills. It felt like the four walls are taking our senses away, making us feel that there will be no more sunrise, and unknowingly trapping us in our overthinking.
The daily high fives become Hi, good morning on WhatsApp, the random hugs became what are you doing, the eye and face reading became not in a mood right now, talk to you later.
Where the problem sharing felt like an antiseptic on the wounds, it now feels like normal chatting. Unfortunately, the technology couldn’t pass on the love and care in those ‘Take care’, ‘I’m with you’, ‘It will be okay’. Soon the medicine faded away taking the love and understanding of the bond with it.
This is the real ‘downs’ of the life; feeling helpless to do something.
Imagine the day when the lockdown gets over. What will be our lives then? Around so many people, especially around your loved ones, yet alone trapped in your brains.
Personally speaking, if this is how we are going to live then its better not to live. I mean who wants to live like strangers with those people who once used to be the reason of our happiness. And most importantly, why? Why to live like this?
This lockdown is transforming us into a new personality, that interprets the small things as the big ones, that thinks that no one understands them, that just wants to be alone in their world. Why the hell we have to live like this? Can’t we think of all the good memories and stop ourselves from changing? Can we just stop our stupid overthinking for once and get ourselves back, the one who used to be genuinely happy? What’s stopping us from being happy? Can we at least try our best to get everything back like it used to be?
I’m not gonna answer these questions because it’s up to you. You are the one who is gonna answer them and decide for yourself. What do you want, the happy you or the overthinking you, the love in the relations or the hate in them?
Just by saying ‘I’m fine’, ‘I don’t care’ won’t help. You also know how badly you want to get things better and normal like before. So why not work on them before it’s too late to even regret.
Let’s end this MentalWar before it ends you. Think about it. Think about yourself. Think about your relations.
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– APREKSHA MATHUR
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