Rush to Bring Back the Rush
What if this is it? What if this lockdown was the last big announcement the government made for us? We are expecting the next big announcement to declare the lifting of the lockdown but what if it just won't happen? Let’s just assume the virus wins and consumes us all. We lose the battle against it and consequently, never get to go back to our accustomed routine. Sure we’ll be dead, which is obviously bad for some reason I choose not to ponder on right now, but, we’ll have left the planet in a replenished and beautiful form, the way it should have always been. As of now, we are alive and our nature is as beautiful as we have always wished, but seldom hoped. There is almost no pollution, no activities based on the exploitation of nature, no hustle for being in time at any place, no anxiety of traffic, no uncertainty of what impressions our colleagues form of us by the way we dress, no pressure of planning a lavish and taxing evening to impress people/family and almost no form of stress gifted by our unduly sought after a modern lifestyle. And all of this is a byproduct of an otherwise deadly crisis. But, for those of us who are still alive, maybe this is what it took to experience the peace, quiet, salubrity and purity that the planet, in its natural form, has always had to offer us but got buried under the pile of consequences to our insatiable greed for progress that stands unwarranted by nature. I think I speak for everyone my age that in all these years, not even once have I experienced what we all are these days. As insensitive and offensive as it may seem to many, this state of nature commands a feeling of gratitude for this time. Keeping the adversities associated with this time aside, which I know is far easier said than done, I admit I am not hating this time. Yes, it's only because I have not been a victim yet, but I cannot not appreciate this state of being. For now, I think we can all agree that this improvement in the environment we are witnessing as nature heals itself speaks volumes about the toll nature takes for our actions motivated by the pursuit of modern comfort and development. But, if we never get to carry on with our routine as we fail to outlast the spread of the virus, we die and we leave the planet a little less damaged, which itself is overwhelmingly impressive for us and, it has been roughly just a couple of weeks that we started with mitigated exploitation of nature. On the other hand, if we all go as planned we should be back to oppressing the planet into satisfying our rapacity in no time. And as a result, the planet will have it’s ‘homecoming’ in merely a week or two and will start turning black again. It will be back to its ugly form that we have gifted presenting our gratitude for all it does for is. It will be headed towards destruction again. It's funny how we have zeroed in on destroying the plant if we get to survive, and how the planet is so better off without us, the modern humans. I just wish that there was some middle ground we could come up with wherein we decide not to damage the planet, the very thing that enables our survival if we outlive the virus. A middle ground where we commit to ourselves to be more considerate consumers of nature Can’t we just pledge that once we get out of the crisis, we will appreciate the fact that while we all could have been dead in all likelihood, we made it, and now we are not going to exploit the planet because we are now aware of how it feels to be continuously deteriorating toward death.
