Author: Sangeetha Kamath
What dawns on me as a lockdown??? When,I have a ritual every evening at sundown to zone out and go sky-gazing, standing at my bedroom window. To spot the twinkling and pulsing lights of airplanes high in the sky ascending into the clouds until they disappear or making their way down with people happy to touchdown and return home. But not anymore!! There are no more airplanes visible in the sky. All I see are starlight and satellites sprinkled across the inky darkness like stardust which, I guess is all what nature intended for us to see in the first place. “When life knocks you down, roll over and see the stars”.
Plus, what does a forced work from home scenario mean to me? I’m quite easy-going and adaptable. In the blink of an eye, I can switch from an ‘outdoor’ and a people-person who dances away her blues with a cardio Zumba and ‘Yogances’ with her workout buddies thrice a week, to be a total ‘indoor’ person. This indefinite distancing will certainly go a long way to make our reunion increasingly cherished when all this vexation blows over. In the meantime, hovering on the brink, it was quite a smooth transition to metamorphose into a recluse engrossed with my unfinished art , reading an unfinished novel and most importantly writing for contests and online journals. These are now my priceless Zen moments. I’m on a road to self-discovery and tapping into my hidden potential. Talk about a break in the dense dark clouds!
Love in the time of Corona is self-love and self-care.
Love for Mother Earth to rejuvenate and restore herself. Until then, I just stargaze while the moonrays soak me through the wide windows and devote my time to hone my craft.
