Yukti Nagpal

Abstract Inspirational Others

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Yukti Nagpal

Abstract Inspirational Others

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

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   The COVID-19 pandemic is something which was never ever visualized by mortal society. It altered our lives on a grand scale. Crores of people suffered, lakhs of them died, thousands were and are still isolated and as such COVID became the part of our life. A person sneezes and the other one maintains a distance of metres. Complete lockdown for months, barricading was done far and wide, posters with the name of covid positive patients were pasted outside every second house, ambulances on roads and sirens of police cars were indicating as if the world is going to end soon.

   

   Me standing alone in my balcony, watching people dying, was literally breaking me with each passing day. I closed my eyes, kept hands on ears, took a deep breathe and questioned myself - Who Am I ? Would I be sitting at my home waiting for this deadliest disease to get over ? Would I be successfully wasting a precious year of my life ? No Darling, my inner me said. You can't hand over the steering of your life to this virus. It's time to be productive, and to find out who are you .


    Most of us plan for Saturday nights and not for our future. When suddenly the decision of our respected Prime Minister came up about imposition of lockdown in the whole country, the only thought that scared people was how to manage their basic requirements and such thoughts were quite common due to their non-savings habit. However, those who were planning and saving for generations, ended up losing their lives. This thing taught me to live my life to the fullest as if it's the last day of life but also to keep in mind about the savings for our future needs or generation.


   We humans keep on delaying meetings with our relatives, and keep on ignoring our loved ones. We stop talking to the people over the little arguments and put an end on communication with those who care for us the most. And at last we always let our ego win. In the current situation, we don't even know what tomorrow can bring. We keep on ignoring the fact that the person to whom we are avoiding today might not be able to come in contact with us the following day, we might not be able to see him again. And this is going to leave us in culpability for life.


    I always used to complain about not getting enough time to give myself and for this I often used to blame my busy schedule. However, after the lockdown when every place, every building was shut down and we were forced to get quarantine at our homes for months , I was successful in wasting a month doing nothing. Then I realised that it was neither the fault of my busy schedule nor of anything else, It was only me who used to find excuses for preventing myself to do a particular work. I was and I am still having enough time to devote to myself. It completely depends upon me whether to utilise it or let it go in vain.


    Leisurely, I opened my eyes and realized that it's not that version of me which was ten minutes ago. I pledged not to repeat those errors again and live my life to the fullest as life is inevitable and uncertain at the same time. So live each day as it's the last day of life. This pandemic will might pass away soon but it has transformed me and taught me the lessons for life. And with this, yes, I flourishingly founded myself and got the answer of Who Am I .


  



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