Corona Crisis and the Coronation of Our Lives!

P C  THOMAS

This Article was published in Metro Vaartha, Bhopal, Indore edition on 29.5.2020

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, every one of us faces difficult times in many aspects of life. The deadly corona virus has spread across the globe and made unprecedented health crisis, bringing along with it uncertainty about future, feeling of helplessness, panic, death and economic upheaval. The world has halted more than ever before and many radical changes have taken place in our lives. All these days of lockdown have made us realize how vulnerable we are and how dependent we are on simple things that we usually take for granted.

When we look around the street, we see no gathering of people. Public spaces are now seen with only by essential workers. The Businesses are ebbed, schools have moved to online platforms and the world has reduced in size equal to our homes and nobody knows when the end of the pandemic will come. 

We have seen that many people are suffering physically and mentally due to the fast spreading virus that has already taken so many lives. However, if we try to look forward to the brighter side of everything when we are in bad situations, something is going to change positively in our lives and good things are sure to happen. 

This one disease, COVID 19 can provide us with such wisdom beyond our comprehension revealing to us of how fragile, interconnected we are and how precious our life is…….It  offers a plethora of lessons on a personal, regional and planetary level showing the urgency to promote necessary transformations of our society to survive in the twenty first century.

We are nine-weeks into the massive time-out forced on us by covid19. Many of us have utilized much of that time trying to get used to the drastic change of living standard the virus has brought. But we are now starting to think about the last part of the crisis, and what the world will look like and what will be our attitude to life after this crisis.

The endemic has resulted in what is productively the largest safe-work-from-home experiment ever performed in human history. People are accessing more educational resources online for their children exploring unconventional ways to connect with colleagues, friends and family. 

As governments make significant interventions in response to the Covid crisis, businesses are promptly adjusting to the changing needs of their people, their clients and suppliers, while steering up the financial and functional challenges. With every industry, operation and logistics affected, the amount of prospective changes to think through can be daunting. 

This crisis also allows us to find additional meaning in our lives. Little things surprisingly become very important.  Also, helping out others, especially in our immediate community and the larger community of those in need, elevates our own mood. 

Although the Covid time affects our emotions, memories, feelings and perspectives, it should help us to transform our vision of life for better and to develop our character. A crisis like this teaches us lessons we would not learn when things are pleasant.

We are the sum of the experiences that we have gathered as we go through life. As human beings, when we encounter a challenge, we have the liberty to respond to it as we think right. Every decision that we make leads us down a different road.

We can also boost our resilience, which is our single best weapon for dealing with stress, by being grateful for things we do have, and not focusing on what we do not. Even if those difficult moments seem to break us, we have an incredible strength that can move us forward. Although there are many unforeseen transformations are brought into our lifestyle, we can use this time more effectively and the crisis can be changed into an opportunity to better the quality of our life!. Indeed an opportunity for private victories! Our personal coronations of life!