Covid19 has lost its power over the past few weeks. Is it because the increasing rate of the number of affected cases slowed down? Or a vaccine has been there in the market for distribution?. No not like this… Not at all! After all these months of waiting and suffering now people have learned to live with it. Also, more and more cases are now being recommended for home isolation or quarantine rather than treating them in a hospital.
The way businesses, markets, hotels, restaurants are opening and people started moving around what I feel is that the condition of the stupid corona has become like ‘a caste’. How? Read on…
Existence of Caste in Society!
Caste in our lives exists but only in our personal lives and for society. In our personal lives, a person’s caste/ race/ religion exists. When interacting with people around us these terms often come up religion, upper caste, middle caste, this caste, that caste….. caste plays a role in our personal life be it major, minor, negligible but it does from person to person.
Contrary to one’s personal life, in professional life only known terms are ’employer’, ’employee’, ‘colleague’, ‘client’, and ‘vendor’. A person is addressed based on his/her ‘designation’ and ‘his value to the business but not by the caste he/ she comes from.
There is a striking similarity with the covid-19 situation. The stupid corona has now ceased to exist in our professional lives. People take precautions but also least care about it and carry on with their daily business routine. They are now more worried about business, clients, staff, and money than getting infected with ‘Stupid Corona’. Whereas in personal lives its existence is still being talked about and precautions taken are of the next level. If someone in the neighborhood is tested positive; or when someone visits at home then precaution levels at home increase.
The fear of corona exists but not where business matters. Someone visiting the office with a mask and sanitized hands are sufficient as if corona will not affect them in the office while talking business.
I personally don’t believe in caste, class, or religion. I respect all religions, classes, and castes. More than that i respect a person…not by the way he looks, or the designation he is on but solely because of him being a good human being.
Vaccines will come when they are done, till then we have to keep moving for a better tomorrow. With or without Stupid covid-19 but we have to keep moving. It is good that people have realized the severity of both – Covid-19 and businesses being closed for long. It is high time that we stop fearing this pandemic and start facing it just like we take precautions when we drive by wearing seatbelts and driving sane on roads. The fear of meeting an accident has not stopped us from driving and moving our lives on a daily basis.
“Be positive in thoughts, Do positive in whatever you do but be prepared for the worst!”
