Post-Corona World: The New Normal!!

The world has changed drastically from the past few months. Everyone has been impacted by the COVID - 19. People, despite any age group and sex, have had to go through some of the other major changes in life, which earlier seemed nearly impossible. Some of the major transitions include wearing masks all the time, sanitizing one-self every now and then, and most importantly social distancing. These habits are now the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. People now have compromised with the situation and have adapted it as a part of their daily life.

World's largest democracies like the US, Brazil, and even India have portrayed the whole situation of COVID - 19 in a comparatively transparent manner. Due to the larger and wider presence of media, these countries could not filter the information transmitted to the masses, nationally or internationally. For a country to flourish in a healthy way, media and people have to work parallelly, in a participatory manner.

However, this crisis has come as a blessing and opportunity for some. Governments have officially started to monitor the lives of their citizens. Businessmen have also tried to take the benefit of the prevailing situation. Poor and people with limited means have suffered the most. The daily haunting scenes of people migrating by foot with no supply of food for days, no money in their pockets, and regular and painful deaths were gaining importance on the media yet people were attaining normalcy with these events. This was the hardest migration the natives' have ever faced after the partition of 1947. The excruciating pain and impressions of horror it left are a big taint on the Indian system of governance.

Lockdowns have made us sit at home for months without taking a glance at the outside world even for a jiffy. Human beings have a tendency of moving continuously, and therefore this was a major shift we made. For the first time, we had enough time to be at home with our loved ones and with ourselves. Many psychological phases one must have faced being at home.

Nobody experiences similar things yet they are all one of a kind. Sub-themes may vary but one major theme stays. What is normal and what is weird may have different definitions for different people. One can not generalize a common definition of being the new normal. It is up to us to adapt to the changes we are experiencing at the moment and be at peace with it, and make it a part of  'normalcy'.