A Bright Day

21 June, summer solstice, the longest possible day of the year; isn't it supposed to be the brightest one as well?

Not quite. This is June 21, 2020. The longest day of the most epic year of the century or more. What hasn't happened this year, right?

I mean the year itself started with the breakout of one of the most deadly virus known to the human kind, which I might as well add, is technically a new virus of an old family. Therefore it's like a new born baby virus, isn't it? Yeah... Should've asked it to those who died of it😅. Well I always believed that babies are dangerous and this one proved it too.

Then, the cancellation of the board exams which I have never heard had happened before. While the world stood on the edge of a cliff, the students of India were rejoicing. Something good happened right? Not true... At all. The exams were indefinitely postponed but the rise in number of cases obviously points to the permanent cancellation. Anyways the problems of Indian students is a tale of another day.

Then, the worldwide lock down and Indian special curfew; the random earthquakes, deadly tsunamis, ongoing indo-china tensions. Everything seems to be in chaos and it literally seems the end of the world.

We will see light. If not now, then let's just wait for it. It is just a matter of time.

And today that is summer solstice/ International Yoga Day / World Music Day /Father's Day we beings of the planet witness the solar eclipse, the kind which hasn't actually been observed for the past 4000 years according to the Chinese. And it is supposed to be lethal right now. What a special year, right?

Okay since I covered almost all the negatives of the year let's come to the positives. I am not going to weigh the pros and cons of the year 2020 but just speak out that haven't we all enjoyed the warm (cool since it is summer.. Sorry Aussies) comforts of our house?

Haven we all enjoyed the nagging of our parents?

Haven't we all enjoyed a 4 month vacation?

And haven't we enjoyed sleeping till noon and staying awake till 3 in the morning?

If the answer to that is yes, then be grateful for this life. Thank God that you have a place called home; people called family; fortune to read and sleep whenever you want because many put there in this world are battling penniless and homeless.

And if your answer is no, I don't know what you have been doing. But I do know that you should give more time to yourself, your family and your hobbies. It's always better to live your life to the fullest when you can.

If nothing more this pandemic has explained us all that life is too short for us to keep on waiting for the joys and opportunities. Let us love ourselves and the world. Cuz hatred takes us nowhere.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind " -MK Gandhi