Pursuit of Peace!!

Never ending pandemic and sufferings!

July views!

Bus travelling, the hardships I faced, came to an end!

Finally the train services for essential services were started.....

Yes, the very much life of mumbaikars (although only the ones on essentials work) were revived.

I started travelling in train.

As the days passed, I realised that while I was travelling through BEST bus, I used to see through the window, witness a different world around me. Every time I travelled through bus, my vision expanded, I could see the life outside the tunnelled vision of my life. I could witness the problems and the life of the people on the roadside through the windows of the bus; whereas my train travelling doesn’t show me this troubling, thought provoking sites! It just eases my life from the pain, the pain that I went through while I was travelling and witnessing the plight while travelling through the bus. And I think, now my stressed mind is relieved, relieved from the direct witnessing but not relieved from facing the harsh truths of life that comes every day in form of headlines in the newspaper.

News of Assam floods and Bihar's lightning and floods calamities claiming life; never decreasing pandemic incidence rates and too add on corrupted politics ... everything is so disheartening!

In mid-July, I could witness the heavy rains getting converted to flood, collapsing buildings, casualties., highest increase in number of cases in a single day, breaking previous records, in Maharashtra. 

Aww... my heart aches; please let me breathe!!

Vaccine trials are going on, some countries claim success. Some studies say immunity shall last only of 2-3 months.

Days are passing by, weeks are passing by, months are passing by, and now seasons!!

Oh pandemic! At least lower u pace! Please be considerate.

Suffering? Why are we intellectual enough to understand what actual suffering is! At times, it feels that it would have been better if we did not grow up at all, instead be a child always.

Are there solutions to all our problems? Are the solutions within our reach?

Few things in life gives you excitement and a naive happiness, like rains, at least for me.

But now I am unable to enjoy it too, seems like life has become crazy. Pandemic does not let anything win over it, at-least not sooner.

Everything around us, involves us. Some of the things brags us throughout our growing age. Those somethings include sadness, sorrow, grief, empathy, sympathy, rage, happiness, excitement, suffering, etc, etc. How and what we choose to live with, is everything about our life.

This pandemic shall continue and so shall the life with face behind masks, at least for a while!

But will the truth of life, sufferings, ever be unmasked?

Where should I start my pursuit of peace?