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Written by Aarti Shrivastava
Pandemic is what happened to us while we were planning 2020. At the start of March 2020, everything seemed fine. Corona was a foreign enemy in a faraway land. And suddenly within a span of 20 days it had come next to us and asking for a fourth seat in the Mumbai local. Then what happened changed things drastically for the whole nation.
Lockdown trial on a Sunday seemed like a fun experiment. A one-day thing. Who knew this experiment would come and haunt us for another 5 months of complete lockdown. On March 24, the first lockdown of 21 days was announced. This too seemed like a phase, which would get over in 3 weeks. However, adjusting to this new trapped life was a challenge we did not see coming.
Staying home for 24 hours meant major change in lifestyle. Obviously, it was not easy for the person who used to wake up checking M-indicator and making crucial decisions like which train to board while in the washroom. Suddenly the worry became attending a scheduled meeting on an app that was just an icon in the mobile menu to date. For housewives, who usually had the house to themselves it felt like a mealtime throughout the day.
For the kid who was supposed to join school, it was a vacation like never before. A vacation with no fixed last day. Firstly, the playground came home and then the school. For students who had just given their board exams, it was the most horrible vacation and transition phase to college days.
The day would pass by checking news updates and filling worksheets just to prove you have ‘worked from home.’ The Working-class saw it all from the introduction of Work from home to complaining about it and to finally adopting it. Going out to get some essentials seemed like going to a war zone. Masks and sanitizers became our forever outdoor partners.
However, there was a brighter side to this lifestyle as well. People started valuing family time. Everyone enjoyed each other’s company and was proudly showing it off on social media sites as well. Suddenly all lessons learned online. Want yoga? Attend a class. Diet plans were fingertips away. Workout patterns from home became the new gym routine.
To sum it all. 2020 was indeed a year to remember and will leave a permanent mark in all our lives.
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