Life in Lockdown: New Phase of Life

 

I can still remember that day, it was Thursday 19th March 2020. I was just returning from my office and watching the news on television to know about Corona cases in India and was waiting for our Prime Minister's ‘Mr. Narendra Modi’ sir declaration which is going to be telecast. Before that I was just listening about the corona, it was scary, and I was also a little scared when I listen that a person from our office also get COVID infected. I got more scared when I came to know that it was spreading by sneezing and touching others because I used to travel public transport to commute office.

 

And then finally our Prime Minister sir declare one-day complete lockdown which was on Sunday 22nd March 2020. This was the first time when the 'Lockdown' word was introduced in our life. first time I am saying because of that I had never imagined a day when whole the India will be at home. But it happened and it happened due to COVID-19, after that rest is the history.

 

Friends! what is lockdown exactly? So let me define lockdown in very simple words so that everyone can easily understand it. Lockdown can be defined as a condition in which no one can live their life freely. Everyone has to follow rules and guidelines issued by the government.

 

We cannot move out from our houses, cannot meet people, even we cannot go out for a walk also. Whatever we need it could be available at our doorstep, but we cannot go out. Such a situation often comes when one has to keep a watch always, but because of this covid-19, we all had to be imprisoned in our homes together and we were under police surveillance all the time.

 

As you are all very well aware now about lockdown as we described above in our words, it proved as life-changing for all of us. When our respected Prime Minister Modi Ji declared for lockdown on 22nd March 2020, it became most challenging for all of us to follow it. When my family heard this news on T.V. everyone was shocked for a while. Nobody knew what to do, how would we manage all the things. Even my sister-in-law had left along with the baby to visit her ill mother before a day. All the members of the family were thinking about the necessary things like groceries, food etc.

 

Time passed on; within a few days, everyone had chosen the way for passing their spare time accordingly to his/her interest. My mom started to make new dishes each weekend, my elder brother started to make videos on YouTube and Rizzle in his additional time. Even my routine time had been changed. Now my breakfast and lunchtime have been changed and I also got started to play some childhood games like Ludo and all. I have downloaded so many games in my mobile which could not be found earlier in my mobile. Sometimes I compared myself with zoo animals that cannot go outside, and their world is limited to that cage only.

 

Being in so many difficult times, a big thanks to our technology which was helping us to connect with our relatives and another family member who was in another city due to this lockdown and could not come back to home and also thanks to those who were delivering necessary items like grocery and other things to our doorstep safely.

 

A very big thanks to all our Doctors and Policemen’s community, who took care of us in this difficult situation without caring about their life or I can say to put their lives in danger for us. In that situation, we saw many layers of human behavior. Where some people were helping others by providing necessary items to live as few were trying to collect the high value of money for things. I can still remember at that time I was short of cash due to ATM were also closed and we need cash to buy the things. But all the sellers i.e. Kirana store, milk man and others were very supporting at that time. So a very big thanks to all those people who supported us at that endangered situation.

 

Last but not the least, a very big thanks to all those people who supported the Indian Government in making lockdown very successful. Because if lockdown failed in our country, then we can imagine the numbers of infected people might be very high as being in the second place of the population in the world.

 

In last, I can only hope this time will also change and life get back to normal as earlier. So, till then be safe, keep safe and if not needed to go out then stay at home.

 

Thanks guys! This is what I had felt in lockdown due to COVID-19, shared with you. If you also want to your story with us or any idea that you create in lockdown then please share with us. We will publish your story with your name and photo. Feel free to contact us if you want to send us your thoughts or your opinion.

 

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