Week 3 or is it week 4? Well, does it matter?!
Life is a blur anyway...not the whirlwind kind of blur..but the slow as molasses blur.
But then again, beauty as well as boredom is in the eye of the beholder isn’t it? Life has slowed down and what you do in that bonus time given to you is up to you.
I am not going on a schoolmarm tear about using it judiciously. Use it as you see fit. Some people do more of what they were doing already. Like me..cooking more, reading more. I intersperse it with vigorous spurts of house cleaning...they are short, done before I change my mind and not very obvious to any one else😛😛. Like cleaning under the couch is beneficial to...whom? But that was my spring cleaning contribution for last week.
My better half on the other hand, went outside to the backyard and did some weeding and followed it up with cleaning out the plant bed in anticipation of a load of topsoil being delivered on Wednesday that is to be spread over the existing soil in the bed. See that kind of cleaning? Now we have a large tray of mini lettuce,beet and assorted plants waiting to be planted. That hits you in the face!
Which brings us back to what you do with your time. The forced isolation gives us time to kill, so we won't be killed, but what about the thousands of medical personnel who walk out of their house everyday wondering if this would be the day they might catch the virus from a patient even if they are super careful?
How about the fact that they do go to work despite knowing that? Every single day? Every single shift? With a shortage of PPEs?
The USS Theodore Roosevelt was in the news recently and what Captain Crozier said about us not being in wartime was true as regards the armed forces. But we definitely are at war and our frontline soldiers are the medical personnel who go out and fight everyday, knowing full well the enemy is still half hidden, unpredictable and deadly. Knowing they are woefully under equipped( not their expertise, but everything else) to handle this. But they all get up and walk into this battle every day, knowing full well that they might be the casuality of the day.
Kudos to all of them. From' first do no harm' to walk into harm's way to save lives is a noble act indeed.
As much as appreciation and admiration is awesome, actual action or rather inaction on our part might help more. Staying home, and away from situations which could increase our chance of exposure to the virus is the best way we could thank them for their selfless service.
Let's do it..or rather not do anything and stay home. Maybe some spring cleaning!!
Dedicated to all the doctors who I had the privilege of attending school with- June, Suganthi, Gayathri Devi...and to Somu and Venkat , spouses of ladies I went to school with. Words cannot amply express our gratitude. Thank you!!
Life is a blur anyway...not the whirlwind kind of blur..but the slow as molasses blur.
But then again, beauty as well as boredom is in the eye of the beholder isn’t it? Life has slowed down and what you do in that bonus time given to you is up to you.
I am not going on a schoolmarm tear about using it judiciously. Use it as you see fit. Some people do more of what they were doing already. Like me..cooking more, reading more. I intersperse it with vigorous spurts of house cleaning...they are short, done before I change my mind and not very obvious to any one else😛😛. Like cleaning under the couch is beneficial to...whom? But that was my spring cleaning contribution for last week.
My better half on the other hand, went outside to the backyard and did some weeding and followed it up with cleaning out the plant bed in anticipation of a load of topsoil being delivered on Wednesday that is to be spread over the existing soil in the bed. See that kind of cleaning? Now we have a large tray of mini lettuce,beet and assorted plants waiting to be planted. That hits you in the face!
Which brings us back to what you do with your time. The forced isolation gives us time to kill, so we won't be killed, but what about the thousands of medical personnel who walk out of their house everyday wondering if this would be the day they might catch the virus from a patient even if they are super careful?
How about the fact that they do go to work despite knowing that? Every single day? Every single shift? With a shortage of PPEs?
The USS Theodore Roosevelt was in the news recently and what Captain Crozier said about us not being in wartime was true as regards the armed forces. But we definitely are at war and our frontline soldiers are the medical personnel who go out and fight everyday, knowing full well the enemy is still half hidden, unpredictable and deadly. Knowing they are woefully under equipped( not their expertise, but everything else) to handle this. But they all get up and walk into this battle every day, knowing full well that they might be the casuality of the day.
Kudos to all of them. From' first do no harm' to walk into harm's way to save lives is a noble act indeed.
As much as appreciation and admiration is awesome, actual action or rather inaction on our part might help more. Staying home, and away from situations which could increase our chance of exposure to the virus is the best way we could thank them for their selfless service.
Let's do it..or rather not do anything and stay home. Maybe some spring cleaning!!
Dedicated to all the doctors who I had the privilege of attending school with- June, Suganthi, Gayathri Devi...and to Somu and Venkat , spouses of ladies I went to school with. Words cannot amply express our gratitude. Thank you!!
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