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Changing World, Changing Me | Dying World, Dying Me

We are revisiting lockdown states – empty streets, closed shops, voiceless, noiselessness all around. Last year, in my privileges of being able to be at home, I was enjoying the quietness and simplicity that reminded me of a simple rural 'being' with only necessities and no frivolities. I remember hoping that the world takes notice of how important this is and how it has changed personal lives of so many. I was hoping we find a way to bring these simplicities in our success-driven, fast lives. Definitely, I wasn’t thinking of these waves and more lockdowns to revisit that quietness.  Today, a part of me is tired of this. And another part is realising that there was hardly any time in history when everything was right in the world anyway. Perhaps, there were moments - like a swimmer coming up for breath and then going underwater to swim ahead - there were perhaps just moments. There were always ideas for a better life.  Like a synchronicity, I saw The Trail of Chicago 7 . It