Managing Life..., to De'code COVID-19

COVID19. The name itself says that there is decoding required. And actually its going to be the same with our lifestyle post corona. We actually need to decode & work for a correction plan. It reminds me a story which my grand mom used to tell us during our childhood. Its about a Sage (Muni), to whom once a rat comes and cries about his fear from the cat. And request sage to bless him grow or change to a cat, so that situation can be manageable. The Sage blesses the rat & the rat becomes a Cat. Soon the cat again visits the sage & requests him to bless him to grow or change to a dog, as the dog haunts him for life. Sage smiles & bless with the required change. It becomes a dog & ran away. But soon the dog again comes to the Sage. This time the issue was a Lion & the dog requests for the transformation. The Sage was amazed by the changing desires of the animal, but still blessed again to change it to a Lion. As soon as the transformation happens, the Lion roars. Lion sees the sage as its food & thought of eating him as he feels hungry. As the Sage understand Lion’s wish, he again converts the Lion to a Rat. I was wondering on this childhood story, as how much it resembles human kind desires. As we wanted to grow, we used everything, we misused Mother Nature & her resources. And Corona pandemic is her turn to convey back that a change is required. A change based on the impacts which World foresee.

The post Corona impact is unknown. It’s a terrible situation for many. Speculations are not showing very positive timeline till the year end. Many articles says that this pandemic is causing the biggest disruption in decades to economies across the World. Somehow, less or interrupted income is foreseen for individuals or the companies, which may lead to lowering of demands of Product & Services. Low demand shall push production cuts, which will eventually lead to closing of business units or plants and further lay-offs. Or in other word, business markets will be contracted. COVID spread may parallel spread the joblessness & the unhealthy economy. Millionaires like Reliance & Amazon has already lost 30% of their worth, many of us may lose jobs. So what? Time is to make up our mind now.

Prepare, so that it doesn’t hurt once it squares down to your business or on you as an individual. As companies or Governments, there would be lot done by them or by the panel of experts, but I would like to comment for us as an individual. We simply need to deep dive, introspect the time based needs & work on skill enhancement. Focus on your hobbies & think whether you are good & experienced enough to start your own venture, post turmoil. Digital Certifications & Data driven learnings are the future and many courses are easily available online, that too directly with leaders like Google. One can learn & practice Yoga professionally – Its free online. Create short term professional plans, It will help. Make your mind, the situation is not going to last long. By chance many of the companies are offering free skill set & Certification courses in this time. There is a learning in every message, there is a message in every learning. As human kind what message & what learning we get from present pandemic is important. Be prepared to start afresh with a commitment that to rise again….., and better, that’s how we are human.

Mother Nature is telling us to learn, rejuvenate, revive, hold our limits & care – “Change not & I shall change the human evolution. You change & I shall bless you”. We must Cultivate dreams, rather than the (false) targets. Spare a time to be happy. I feel happy that at least I could connect to many of my old friends & relatives in this lockdown period.

Intention is everything. Lets bounce back !