Hi! I hope you are doing well. When I say 'doing well', I mean physically because lately, I have been hearing a lot of people say that they are annoyed by the emptiness in their lives. I am not trying to hyperbolise this but apparently, a goliath void has opened up in their lives, sucking their sanity and spitting out woe and anguish. Maybe they are the ones to blame for this void in their lives. That's my best guess. And hey! It's ok I can write anything I want. My opinion should not matter much in your life. But this question has been squeezing in and out the convolutions in my brain for over a week now. "Where, when or how can normal humans become satisfied when they start feeling pestered by the sheer absence of workload in their lives?" I don't have an answer for this, yet.
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Let's flip back a few pages of the calendar to observe the so-called mundane lives many of you had. I see you are burdened by several loads. I see you are carrying your workload back to your home when you return from your workplace. Some of you are busy binging on Netflix (or Prime Videos) till late night and then going to sleep with terror-filled eyes. I know, that you know, that everybody feels the same fear of struggling to meet the deadlines when they wake up. Then comes the group which carries various forms of emotional baggage on their head. Some are drowning deeper and deeper in their unrequited love. Some are pining to share their daily scuffle with loved ones who themselves are ready to dive into depression. See, I have no intention to nitpick all your problems. I am just trying to point out the one resource that many of you longed for, back in the days and now you have. I am talking about 'time'.
I know people who used to chant their grief periodically, for having no time for themselves. I have seen people who regretted not being able to devote adequate time to their families. Some of them took pride in becoming nocturnal for the sake of meeting the deadlines, just because they couldn't stay away from Instagram in the evenings. Yes, I know that I am no one to tarnish your image in your own eyes or burst your bubble which might be keeping you uncannily narcissistic. I too complained about not having enough time to complete my courses, for building projects, for hanging out with friends, talking with family and whatnot. But let me tell you, today I have completed one month of self-isolation. I am not at home with my parents. I am living in a hostel where I rarely see a known face these days because most of them are gone. I am trying my best to manage this time wisely between leisure and work. I have been completing all my errands myself and I am fine. Yes, I miss my loved ones, I always did but the fact that there is nothing to stop us from accomplishing whatever we wanted in our personal lives is keeping me pumped up almost every day.
See, I know that I am not supposed to preach to my readers. I feel that a lot of you might be living way better than me during this lockdown but the ones who are experiencing the void, need to walk away from it. You have a plethora of things to work on. If you always struggled to wake up early in the morning then this is the time when you can sleep earlier than usual and set your body-clock right. If you weren't spared time to invest in your family then go and be with them now. If you are not remarkably good at cooking then, please don't start cooking uber-exotic dishes during this lockdown because we never know when we would run out of food and most importantly some people are struggling to put food on their plates. There might be a lot of other things that you always wished to do but never had the time for. You can have some mercy on yourself and try fulfilling those wishes. In the end, try not to forget that this lockdown is going to end sooner or later, exams will be conducted one day or another and our workload is going to increase for sure. We need to brace ourselves for these future events.
This is the time when you can work hard, and still enjoy without anything weighing your shoulders down. I know it might be tough for people who are slightly more gregarious than others but try to look at the positive side of this lockdown, it might help you in becoming more self-dependent.
Remember that procrastination might not hurt you much right now but the deleterious curses from your struggling future-self will.
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Nicely written brother.