Much has been written about the pandemic, and you would not be surprised if I were to write about you.

So, let me ask you a question and that is how a conversation normally initiates, isn’t it? Let me ask you, how are you doing in a situation called the post-pandemic era?

You might wonder, are we really there yet? Wouldn’t that be your first noble thought?

With the advances science and technology had achieved that it came up with a score of vaccines to support us in a short duration of time, might do a little bit to support the theory. But on a large scale, we are still miles away from where we could say ‘A better world!’

Lives lost, jobs lost, peace of mind lost, it takes time to recuperate. Both nature and humans are on a rat race on opposite ends to heal themselves. If nature heals faster, then, it only means humans will take a longer time to come back to form and vice versa. That leaves us in a dilemma, whether nature would support us again, if we were to face yet another pandemic as this one.

I recently asked my friend, if he believed that nature has taught us a lesson for being unkind and unjust with her (don’t we all agree?). He did not have to think twice, but, voiced his support to my query.

So you see, it could be just as well that. Nature punishes and gives us yet another chance to learn from our mistakes. It wants us to survive. But, we are indulged in a technological revolution that, with little wonder, has put us in a Holocene Epoch.

So, where do we go from here?

I’am absolutely sure that man would never learn from his mistakes (Quality as always). Already we have seen people becoming careless about the pandemic itself. The fear of the disease and the death is now, half way down his common sense.

I usually walk around wearing a protective double mask and gloves, because, I’am concerned about my safety and the ones around me. I’am responsible and I pride in saying that. But my friends laugh at me. Maybe they think I’am a clown with the mask and the gloves on. Some of them walk without wearing their mask, especially, when we are in a physical group chat. That saddens me, but, I don’t blame them totally. It’s our human nature to overcome any adverse effects mentally, and then, forget about it altogether, and in the end let it go.

Also, it’s all in our nature. Talk about parties, people love company. Like I said, it is in our nature, because, man is a social being and not a recluse.

Hence, it takes only a matter of time for this character of man, to scale up, and to achieve what it lost during the pandemic times. Earth will lose its shine.

Few months back we talked about the fact that we could see the Himalayan valley right from the fields of Punjab. An occurrence that came after decades. Will we get that chance again? Perhaps not.

To hope a better world, we need to respect the nature. As per researchers, our Earth would live for another 8.5 billion years. Great news! You would yell, but, that is Earth. It will continue to survive, no matter what we do. It is said that it will survive until the Sun (which is slowly expanding) gobbles it up.

But, are we going to live that long, if we were to continue with our madness? No, we won’t. Several researches confirm just that. We are guests on this planet only for another 100,000 years, provided we survive that long.

We are on our way to extinction, my dears!  Just like the dinosaurs. Or at least the dinosaurs were not tech savvy. I wonder what they must be thinking in their after lives. Perhaps they would only blame the crazy meteor that came down crashing from nowhere, and blew their heads.

When will we ever open our eyes and see the real picture? This is no meteor. We will still be lucky to live another day considering that the meteor Apophis would brush past Earth in 2029. This is a pandemic situation. This pandemic is just a reminder of where we are leading ourselves to. It is a start to things that is beyond our control.

Well, I’am not scaring you, am I?

But, nothing is lost. We can still garner from our researches of the pandemic and then, learn to apply it for a better living.

If we care for one another, and just tweak our human nature a little bit to accommodate a responsible way of living, then, things will fall in place. Earth will be again a better place to live in. We have to think of our future generations and not just live as we are never going to die.

In the end, I would like to remind you that we live in a beautiful world, and let us learn from this pandemic. Our forefathers had lived a life abiding with the nature and hence, we are able to live today. If we learn from them, only then will we be able to teach our future generations.

Man should learn to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes, for his own glory and to give hope for our future generations to lead them to a better world.

Amen to that!