On the Path to a New Normal Life!

When we entered 2020, we all had plans to get married, travel to exotic locations, get our dream job, reach our financial goals, study abroad, but everything changed in just a matter of few weeks of 2020.

When we got to know about the spread of the virus, we all assumed it's not going to affect us, thinking the problem lies far away in an unknown destination. Soon we got to hear the first case in our city still we thought the situation was in control.

One fine day we all woke up and the virus just like a global network was able to reach everywhere, we all had to face the grim situation we were in and the unthinkable happened “The lockdown.” Still, we were hopeful and thought guess what “ I needed this much break from work”, “I will finish the novel that was pending”, “ I will start watering the plants”, “ spend quality time with my family”, “will eat healthy and exercise, get in shape”, “ will sleep more” some of these things we did follow, however, most of us were glued to YouTube, NETFLIX, Amazon Prime, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, watching TikTok videos, there’s nothing wrong with it, we all did whatever that needs to be done so that we remain sane and to be normal.

We all woke to a new world, new reality, new rules, we were pushed rather than given a choice. We all were for the first time mourning together as a humanity for the loss of the old world, there’s was a day when we complained about the old world but when that was lost all we did was mourn for the loss of old-world, just like a grieving stage we denied the reality, we felt frustrated, missed the liberty to go out, eat in our favorite restaurant, social gatherings where large people was mandatory we got use to small intimate people, rather than a taboo, it was indeed new norm of the world. Within a day we no longer were dependent on the cab services, food services which marked as a daily routine for us. We all got to witness the highest mortality rate in the history of mankind, loss of business, unemployment, the experience of fear, and anxiety for the future of us and our family members.

Yet we never lost the hope for the cure, all thrived did our best to cope with the lockdown, adopted into the new lifestyle, giving a pathway to new version of yourself, new belief systems, new attitudes.

I Guess in the end, each one of us as humans has evolved on the same day, we all entered to a “ NEW NORMAL LIFE”, right now we all need to figure, what this “New Normal Life” means to us, each one of us in our phase, have to accept the “ New Normal life”.The sooner we do the better we feel.

Dr.Akeela.P