The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Aug. 15/2020

"Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “pro/con.” Talk about the pros and cons of anything." The pros and cons of living in times of Corona. Life is a peculiar tale. You win some and you lose some. As you are confined in your home,you spend only on basic essentials, there by increasing…

Lockdown Day 51

So many days have passed and the storm has not blown over yet. We are in the eye of storm as numbers surge. Life is going to be different and difficult and restrained. And there are going to be more hungry mouths and poor. We are at a war but the enemy is unseen. We…

Lockdown Day 44

The days are being ticked off and the numbers are many. It is just like floating in a lacuna with no sense of time. Days begin and end in the same manner in a rhythmical clockwork mechanism. The new normal has become abohorrent. I rant to myself to let out steam. I go to the…

Lockdown Day 40

Days and nights are going on in a continuous roll of anonymity. I remember a childhood game called Statue. A person used to shout statue and everyone used to freeze into immovable stupor. It seems a tiny and invisible virus has frozen everything into inanimate mode. The notion that Time does not stand still has…

Lockdown Day 35 & 36

Days are going by. Numbers are rising. The fear that lockdown may be extended is in the air. Tempers are rising and people are edgy. Yesterday there was a fight in the Society Whatsapp group. People were complaining about cats and dog in the complex that have been there for past several years. And the…

Lockdown Days 32;33;&34

I could not put down the last three days because I had slipped and hurt myself. So many days in confinement make me wonder of the times when I used to step out at the slightest excuse. I loved just walking through sometimes bustling and sometimes empty roads watching the avid shoppers and noisy shopkeepers…

Lockdown Day 31

Today was another day! I got up late because my sleep does a disappearing act nowadays in the deep of night. And when the dawn breaks,all you want to do is to snuggle deep into the duvet! But you get up cussing and morose for there is so much to do! The day was warm…

Lockdown Day 29

The day has ended. I got up in the morning with a heavy head and a feeling of dread in my heart. An unknown fear was coursing through me. A vague sense of unease foreboding times come. A huge spike is estimated in weeks to come. And the experts have said that the current wave,if…

Lockdown Day 28

Nearly a month of long confinement is over. I can proudly pat on my back for adhering to it .l have stepped out twice only for essentials. There have been some bad times when I have felt stifled and overwhelmed. But I have managed to sail through them and now I feel that I have…

Lockdown Day 27

Days are flying by meaninglessly. Its like you are stranded in a deep pit with no way out. And an eerie feeling of stillness persists. And the hot weather is also sapping the energy. Its like you are drowned in your own sweat as you work around the house. But ranting will not solve the…