The earth is healing

Seema Rehman

Recently, while talking about all that is happening around us, my seven year old nephew said something very wise, He said, “the earth is healing”. I was taken aback by his wisdom or should we call it innocence.

The earth is healing and we are quarantined at home so there is less pollution on roads as there are no cars and other vehicles .May be we have abused our environment so much that it needed to to recover.

It depends a lot on how we look at things if we are positive we can consider it as a period of healing or rebooting ,if we are negative we can say it’s something forced on us and we can crib about it All the time, no matter how we decide to look a it its there and may be for a long time.

These are difficult times,the only consolation seems to be that we are together in this irrespective of cast,creed,socio-economic status and even countries,perhaps this something unprecedented. So in a very strange and scary sort of way Corona has united the mankind.

This period of quarantine ,social distancing ,or physical distancing and social solidarity means different things to different people. Some are taking this as an opportunity to reconnect with their families, while others are reconnecting with themselves. Some are cribbing about everything while there are others who are grateful for what they have. We need to count our blessings every single day and each one of them.

It’s important to do things for families and with families but at the same time it’s important to take some time out for yourself too. Take some time out to do the things you enjoy doing by yourself. Do the things you always wished to do but couldn’t due to scarcity of time. This is the time to bring all your mental strength to the fore and stay positive.