THE LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE

 Hi, this is my first serious blog. I mean I plan to continue writing a blog daily and throw insights into my and our contemporary life as parts of the society.

Life under lockdown is comparatively relaxing than my normal busy office-going days when I had to leave home at 8 AM. We do have our ‘work-from-home’ routines, four hours per day ie two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.  

I did go out during the curfew-relaxation duration to buy essentials today. There was relatively short queue this time outside the departmental store. I was not bored. But I was definitely SHOCKED, on seeing the price of the washing powder: its price was Rs 1080. I think it weighed a good 10 kgs. There was no half-kg or 1 kg washing powder available. And the alternate kirana store was also shut. This has been the state since the past one month. I mean, WHY would anybody buy such a huge packet. I mean, I am a strongly built woman, but I CANNOT lift more than five kgs. So that purchase is still pending. I just pray to Almighty that the other kirana store gets the washing powder of believable quantity and the stock lasts till I buy it and then me braving the hard-sun would be worth it.

I’m not able to get the medicines either. The doctor, a specialist has got his clinic in Vashi. The required medicines are available in the ground floor of the same building. But I currently stay in Ulwe. Here even in the reputed medical stores there is no stock. Even in the medicines-online website, there is no stock available in our particular location ‘Navi Mumbai’. I just pray to God that everything ends well.

However difficult life has been in this lockdown period, I am of the opinion that the Modi government has done its best. This suffering and strange sort of unimagined relaxation period will be remembered. Well, it has been the first in my thirty-seven year life that I’ve faced any sort of curfew. All over the world the situation is bad. But guys, it’ll end soon, we need to follow the guidelines and life will be normal.