The months of March and April spells fear of COVID-19 to all of us globally and surely enough we are all worried as to what the future holds for us and more so for our next generation, or worse still how many of the next generations will live even as long as we did?

Being halfway through our lives this fear has always been there within me and it has just been magnified with this pandemic. But let’s be honest here HUMANITY!  didn’t we see this coming or were we under the impression that we could go on living our lives and exploiting a Silent Mother Nature and there would be no retaliation or repercussions?

Think again… We thought we are a superior race, so-called “Humans with Technology” touching its peak and we were unstoppable and indomitable, leading the way with 4G and 5G speeds OR even for the fact of the matter being adventurous enough to venture into outer space. We lived our way all along and thinking THAT IT WAS ALL OKAY !!

Now, whose having the last laugh: a small microscopic organism which we can’t even see or feel but yet has created global devastation, Because we kept thinking, all along THAT IT WAS ALL OKAY !!

• We could deforest the Amazon, have bush fires on the other end in Australia -AND IT WAS ALL OKAY.
• We could open up shipping routes in the polar regions and be damn proud of it -AND IT WAS ALL OKAY.    
• We sent a man on the moon bad enough we wanted to even colonize MARS – AND IT WAS ALL OKAY
• We could just blatantly reclaim wetlands and construct mammoth infrastructure –  AND IT WAS ALL OKAY  
• We could indulge in flattening mountains for mining and commercial reasons –  AND IT WAS ALL OKAY
• We would soon start space tourism and sell land on the Moon – AND IT WAS ALL OKAY  
• We could find massive reserves of oil & gas/drill until we pierced the Earths Soul – AND IT WAS ALL OKAY
• We could as a sport or for selfish reasons, push some species to near extinction -AND IT WAS ALL OKAY

Now, once again I refute and ask you, HUMANITY? IS it all Okay !!  Really? tell me about it…

• We are locked down, confined to our homes like caged animals – IS IT OKAY?
• We have been curbed on our freedom to live and travel  –  IS IT OKAY?
• Oil and Gas which we drilled all long for is not reaching your cars –  IS IT OKAY?
• The dead are piling up like a garbage stack on a landfill –  IS IT OKAY?
• We are scrambling to buy basic groceries and necessities –  IS IT OKAY?
• Were watching our beloved leave us yet WE CAN’T touch to help them –  IS IT OKAY?
• The Global Economy of selfishly hoarded wealth has just collapsed –   IS IT OKAY?
• The joblessness will rise exponentially which will lead to more chaos –  IS IT OKAY?

And if so shamelessly we still think that IT IS ALL OK?  The present circumstance has thought us otherwise. We have seen signs all along, with Nature hinting all along, Learn, Change, Show some respect, Have some mercy? BUT NO, DID WE.

The trouble of global warming, previous epidemics like, MERS, SARS, BIRD FLU, EBOLA, the recent 2 tsunamis, regular floods /drought, and changing demographics of seasons. It’s all there, was always there but we turned a blind eye, as we thought IT WAS ALL OKAY. So wake now all those of us who will survive and live through this, as the dead are not going to. What we always feared has now actually come true as we tirelessly worry about the fact that will my children ever have a childhood or grow up in a world as we did? Of course, they won’t as that world no longer exists my friend. Look at what we have done.

The worst apathy that exists is the fact that we play the BLAME GAME and often feel like an insignificant single what can I do to make a change? Well, think again in the words of the late Micheal Jackson, Start with the MAN In THE MIRROR.

The little things in life do matter, but we only see the big picture as our ever-competitive materialistic world has trained us to. If there is one thing that we can all do is, first accept that I am partly responsible for this and then make changes to our lives that will benefit others. Be a little more humble and caring towards other people and may then it could spill over to the flora and fauna. Be aware that in spite of us having all our various God’s in all their forms, there is a supreme power that controls and balances the heavens and the earth, DO NOT TRY TO TAKE HIS PLACE. Leave our gadgets and technology aside, it will never give you true happiness and peace of mind, practice some TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCING at times, its a root cause for all major problems today. And if I can end lastly I would say SPREAD SOME LOVE !!

We in this lockdown phase know what it means to long to see other people, be free and roam, hug another friend, eat our favorite meals at a restaurant or watch a movie at the cinemas, we know it now more than ever. So instead of virtually doing it across DUMB DEVICES ( as I never understood the concept of calling a phone SMART ), do it physically in person, we all know how much we long now for basic human interaction. We as humans,  basically do care, just that we don’t care enough, or else why would be sitting or standing in our balconies and streets and applauding the efforts of people who are working in such tough times.

They are doing their job always, pandemic or not? So can we thank them each day, I guess we can. Wake up World,  Good has always prevailed, so let it start. And to end, some food for thought,  think of the reverse hypothesis. Bacteria, viruses, microscopic organisms have always existed on earth from time immemorial, we know theories that life on our Planet Earth started with the union of them. So Mother Nature doesn’t need us to exist or be perfectly balanced, we need her?

So what if all these microscopic organisms and viruses were the original inhabitants of Planet Earth and we humans are the real nCoVirus? Think about it, if that didn’t make you change, I don’t know what will. 
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Eldren Goes