These Days !!!

An unusual Dussehra it was… But was it!!! 

We spent whole day cleaning and cooking. Our tired body and happy heart took a power nap only to wake up and get all decked up for virtual celebration having equally real wishes for & from people who are there in our life unconditionally. Our resonating excited family was already posting pictures on wts app but we were as usual running a little late with the rituals. Winding up our tiny ritual with a heart full of love and gratitude, we had a smiling connect with our family through video call. Soon after the food of overwhelming love and blessings, we clicked the mandatory cliché photos. I feel the toast for those lovely pose goes to his green kurta with semi long wavy hairs (all Thanks to lockdown for his look to die for) and my entire attire, which was combination of yellow saree, red blouse, all red accessories with a big round red bindi that strikingly topped with my Maa Durga pendant… I know, I know!! This is not a fashion blog but in my experience blog, the amazing Bengali look we both Bihari carried has an inundation of emotion to it and so rather became mandate to mention… In between my solo selfies, he played some old songs and got us a glass of rum. We talked, we ate, we laughed and we sang… Oh sorry!! I sang and he whistled!! It was an unwinding moment and somehow what I felt was an aura of blessings to shine around.

This all takes me back to the last festival we celebrated as a nation together and the festival was to clap or tap or even rap as a tribute to all those who were going through tough phase in the corona times. I still play the recording of that day, the vibrations it generate reinstalls my faith in positivity. As the day progress, the fear haunts back of the virus that is a stranger to us and still acts so overfriendly. The overfriendly virus gives me the same feeling as we get on meeting some pretentious person. The character they develop around them scares us to play a role in their life and similarly this virus scares the good life inside the infected human to rule the body by his principles. The fight between the good life and notorious virus is same as what we go through in our day-to-day life. Time takes its spill and the side it flows to, dominates. As I continue to be home, raises my quotient of thought on what if this threat was never around. Also, eventually disturbs me emotionally on hearing any unfortunate news this so-called not so deadly virus is making. 

However, as the month progressed my attention was dragged into another aspect of what changed since lockdown. Do you remember before this when you spent so much time with your spouse; this set up of spending time together was left for retirement & we were competing for quick achievements to achieve early retirement… How complex !!!

Do you remember that any time soon you planned to stay with your parents once you left for higher education? This is a priceless bonanza to be able to be back to them and perceive it as a blessing in disguise… Time is all you never had, Time is all they ever want and Time is all you have now… How blissful !!!

Do you remember when you were justifying your absence for missing the firsts and seconds and even thirds of your child for building up a better future? The present is now and the privilege to build memories together is here.That smile in the morning and those twinkling proud in their eyes when you solve their query is unparalleled… How cherishing !!!

Do you remember the last time you were speaking to your forgotten relatives more than once a year or Do you remember preparing so many delicacies together at home as a family activity or Do you remember the last time spending weekends playing board games with family or Do you remember nurturing your house plant daily or Do you remember your pet tired of waiting for you to be back and now feels delighted to see you around all the time or Do you remember when you last sang a song and painted your heart out as you had that extra hour left in the day or Do you remember sipping that hot cup of tea in your balcony staring  outside in peace or Do you remember adding a new item in your hobby-lobby because you always wanted to do it one day… May be we had forgotten what life is made of small things… May be it’s time to revisit oneself !!! 

What these days taught us is not about where we take birth or when we die, it is more about what we earn in-between. Life has been quite different since lockdown and I wish not to dim the light of the perspective it has brought to me by anchoring my boat. I know the experience would have been different for all but what shall remain with us be the way of life.