Week 29

 I think I skipped a couple of weeks as the weekly blog update moved from the end of the week, to the start of next week, to the end of the next week.

No, I counted again and somehow the numbering is correct. A small detail in a world where infection numbers have gone beyond counting. The official number of people who have died because of the virus has crossed a million. The unofficial numbers, the number of those who are sick, the number of those who have lost loved ones, the ones who have lost jobs or homes or just everything are all numbers beyond counting.

Why? Because this is the way nature works. This has happened a hundred years before too. Evidently all our inventions and technologies and communication tools were not enough.

We may find a way out in a few months (or years). Or the weeks would continue to grow more and more difficult for more and more people. Or maybe, like it did a hundred years ago, the virus may grow weaker and nature may give us another chance. Or maybe, the way the world is moving, we would end up self-annihilating and there would be no on left for the virus to infect.

I keep trying to think optimistically and this is what I come up with!

Let’s settle for realism instead.

So taking into consideration all the predictive modelling, I have been trying my best to let go off the old normal and make my peace with the new one.

Decided to outsource chapatis as the first step of acceptance. Have worked out a contactless delivery and payment model. The next on the list-a dish washer? No, my survey says that’s still too much work. An Instant Pot? No, you still need to do all the planning and cutting and chopping and prepping for 21 meals in a week. An extra pair of hands? A magic wand? 

We need something more than realism here!