As physical communication has become still over the last one month, I sit alone in my room introspecting the transitions that happened within myself and several other folks like me while we started staying away from home. I rewind the time to the days when I couldn’t even step out of my house without my parents.
Leaving Home
Leaving home is the first time many come face to face with the real world divorced from the bookish knowledge they had been learning.
Growing around the four walls of a house, life was so academically driven that we had to rely only on the ideologies and customs set by society. Like me, I think many others were hooked only to grades and ranks as we believed that it is the only way to attain success. But life takes a significant turn when we leave home at a certain age.
Be it leaving for a hostel or a job or maybe entering into the in-laws, you are switching to the real world which is different from bookish ideals. I am quite certain that everyone must have cried at least once while we left home for the first time. And as we take the step, the whole world around us changes and nobody seems to be kind enough to understand us.
With strangers and new folks diving into your cycle, it is very difficult to find your feet in the beginning. And you just want to return to your sweet home. It takes time to set your tune to the tone of the new place and its people. Although it seems tough to find your space, it is this phase that transforms your growth into a new direction.
You get your wings to fly and explore the real world. More importantly, it makes you realize your potential as an individual. As the new journey sets on, we seem to encounter a lot of conflicts because life doesn’t seem to be idealistic as it is portrayed in the books. Bit by bit, we accept the reality and sense the societal principles. As time passes, we build our world by sensing the instincts of survival.
Strangers turn into friends, brothers, and sometimes partners and you try to find your happiness in them. In many cases, people tend to lose their way and go astray if they don’t find the right company. As we stay away from homes, the people we hang around or rely upon matters considerably in rediscovering our lives. Meeting the right set of people in this phase of life can incredibly transform you. Seriously, the phase where you stay away from home teaches you so much that you mould yourself to face new challenges.
The Lockdown And Being Away From Home
And as I have been staying alone for the last month amidst the corona lockdown, I can see this period of lockdown as another massive transition phase for the folks staying away from home. With almost three million people being affected all around the world by this heinous virus, survival has become the primary objective. While several youths have returned safely to their homes, on the other hand, many others like me have been stuck far away from their families and friends due to unavoidable circumstances.
With no one around you and negative vibes pouring from all sides, the mind seems to have lost stability. It is very unfortunate to have isolated from the outer world but you have no options other than facing this adverse period with positivity. With the economy going into a tailspin, we are not only fighting for survival against COVID-19 but also heading towards the ruinous aftermath of the corona catastrophe.
I strongly feel that this is not the time to sit back and curse fate and destiny. Instead, everybody staying far away from their homes should motivate themselves and endure the struggle so that we are prepared enough to confront the outcomes of this global pandemic. We should keep aside the negativism so that we can fight corona and for our self-being. Let’s take this crisis as a blessing and optimize the time of the lockdown by doing productive work. And I believe that getting over this arduous phase will definitely transform everyone’s temperament towards life and eventually make us stronger.