Social Distancing - The New Normal

Trending Isolation

2020, The worst possible year ever.

That's what every one thinks right?

Well I might agree to that till some extent.....

But let us discuss what really is bad about 2020.

It it because we are all stuck at home? Is it because we are all bored out of our minds? Is it because some of us think that they are not being productive enough? Is it because we can't see our friends and distant relatives anymore? .... Or is it because we can't accept change?

We all felt suffocated and like a prisoner being bounded by the four walls in our homes, but we did discover a lot of new things that we could do by ourselves. 2020 has no doubt been a wicked and tiring year (till now), but we still have had some great things to look up to.

For instance, being at home was not boring when you found out that you might take up art as a hobby, or when you realized that you are really good at writing, or you could actually pass on a great advice, or you can cook some pretty good dishes, and on and on and on.

Isolation is not preferred by a lot of people; they don't want to be alone. Being quarantined was not on the new year's resolution we made on the 1st of January, 2020. Sitting at home and not being able to go out at all was not on the agenda for this year.

2020 was meant to be just like other years; a normal one.

But things changed; some might think for the best while the others can whine about how this year could not be any worse.

We are constantly comparing our lives of how they used to be back then and how they are now. We are complaining about how much we hate this, how much we want to get out of this. But have we once, tried to accept it?

When earlier partying, staying out late at nights, having a blast with friends and having end number of get togethers used to be a trend, then why can't staying at home be the new trend; why can't isolation be a new trend?

House arrest, home torture, dreadful isolation and hell hole are some words , or might I say, some trending words, describing the sudden situation.

No matter what you call or how you see it, but there always will come a time when you would like to revive these days just to change how you could have handled this if you had just accepted it.

This isolation acted as a great platform for us take some time out of our busy schedules and bond with our families, who we might have been ignoring unknowingly just because we were too busy. We had time to get back in touch with old friends, who had drifted apart because of some differences. We had time to explore our personal interests, that we might have lost somewhere down the lane of filling up all the social norms and making a place for yourself in the society.

And if nothing of that worked out for you, then you had time to think that why didn't anything work out for you. We all are different, we all have our own comfort zones, we all have our own interests.

Family bonding, catching up with old friends and discovering new hobbies might not appeal to everyone. But that doesn't been you are boring or not fitting perfectly.

You can very much prefer your isolation as absolute isolation, nothing less, nothing more.

It's always fun to have a full ice cream tub, a cozy blanket around you and binge watch your favorite Netflix series.

There are seven billion people in this world which means there might be at least 10,000 people out there who share the same interests as you. Don't be ashamed of what you feel; don't be ashamed of how you are.

It's your life, your choices, nobody else is allowed to rule your life just because you think it's the right thing to do; if that's the case then someone else might as well be living your life which you were supposed to lead.

Corona didn't force us to do go quarantine, it's by choice and we stand proudly by our choice.

Isolation is what we trend, not desolation.

Pakhi Rajput