Person A : HaAchoo...
Every other person in the room : Awwww ,God Bless you dear !
Saying God Bless you while someone sneezes is seen as good manners .That's just a way of removing someone from the embarrassment of having sneezed apart from the theory their system freezes for a second. I mean , come to think of it , this is something which people should also have done , when someone farts/burps, but we judge someone when they pass gas or burp loudly. Observe the quirkiness in this ? The natural act of food being digested is being sent out as burp and gas , but these are condemned and looked down , but when you sneeze out of flu or dust allergy ,you are being blessed . With such debatable ways of society , it is tough to follow a personal code of ethics as most of the times we live as part of society and we are pressurized to abstain from hurting the sentiments of no value. From the silent practices that were handed over by our parents, ancestors which include the "act of washing hands and legs " before/after eating & before/after using the washroom even in our homes , blessing the food with a small prayer ( which we don't consciously follow always ) to the public behavioral ethics such as refraining from public spitting , urinating or defecating or picking nose and wiping the dirt in our dress when no one sees - all of these "supposedly" harmful vices of humans have resulted in a virus, that has intelligently understood to jump from human to human because each one of us have one bad habit or the other and it uses the innate human misbehavior to take the race down. A person who picks their nose is friends with who sneezes without restraint who is friends with a person who keeps cleaning their teeth who shakes hands with someone who doesn't wash hands after touching the taps in the washroom . All the virus had to do was being born and we ourselves delivered diseases to each other like we were servants to this corona . This is not far from the movie "men in black" , where human brains got acquired with "aliens". Adding to the nuisance are mosquitoes which come and bite one healthy person after sucking the blood out of a misbehaving human , thereby establishing wireless connection for the Corona Network.Simple food formulas like using mix of spices such as turmeric , tamarind , garlic , cumin , ginger , mild salt and chilly powder in our diet in some form of the other which silently feeds the immunity cell army inside us are not followed , but we don't hesitate to relish the synthetically processed foods and meats of all kinds . If we have been doing all kinds of such drastic detrimental practices, whats the point in blaming a person who ate a bat or rat or perhaps a snake, which eats both of them ? This corona situation is as much strong but discreet warning which nature and the divinity can give us. Today we are pushed to an extent for wishing the welfare of each other , because as mentioned earlier, we live in a society and we can't afford anyone beside us, to commit anything that might make them "corona sick" . Everyone is wiping the hell out of their hands and legs with hand sanitizers and disinfectants and soaps , without realizing that this might lead to shortage of water in countries like India where running water is still a luxury . We are the ones, who mocked our village folks and people from interior places , when they used liquefied cow dung mixed with camphor to splash in front of their lawns and houses which gave it a green less attractive look but ensured no germs entered their houses. Common , what are we even endorsing ? Adding to the fire, are these connoisseurs of conspiracy theory , who add confusion to the pool by saying this was a result of a Bio war waged by one country against another , with the help of some other country. As much as I would like to hope , that this theory is not true, why are we bent on finding out plausible causes that might have caused, when we don't pause for a moment to stop and re-validate the wrong things we have been doing and the right things that we have been ignoring ? There is no standard remedy for this . I may have a different bad habit than you , but you and me are in society and both our bad habits have established a tunnel for the corona and other such nefarious species to thrive with whim. Now that half the globe is afflicted with this , nothing is lost even now. Observe the simple habits that you have and have not been doing and start making changes in your food and lifestyle. We don't need a corona to come and remind us off our manners. We are the so called intelligent species of the planet and part of our intelligence lies in our ability to change ourselves and not fall prey to a single lifestyle , like animals. If we go on washing our hands and legs with chemicals like this ,where will we go for water and what is to say about all the chemicals we are introducing into the environment ? One problem leads to the another and we don't need a Hitler or Mussolini to massacre humans, as we ourselves are potent enough to wreak havoc among us. Pathetic . Today, stocks are tumbling, old men and women and toddlers have to go through tiring endless waits and struggles due to mismanaged medical screening measures in airports and public spaces , opted by governments that are hopelessly making every effort to help society.
In this day and age, when tripping your friend , dancing with moving cars , showing your face in time lapse are a hit , we should start a challenge where we openly have identified one bad habit of ours and share with the public, and tag someone else . If everyone confesses their not-so-proud aspects like this , we become aware of each others misgivings and may even end up losing all our bad habits as a society . We can name it something like "OneHabitDown" where each one of us lose a bad habit and proudly share it with the world. Novel problems require novel solutions. Help yourself, to help the society . We can't afford to trouble Earth any more with our atrocities. Today we live in such a society where a mother's pure selfless breast milk is the only food product that can be trusted for consumption. But we are not far from a day when even this will be endangered, thanks to the breast implants and other nonsense we are doing with our bodies to boost our vanity. The problem is not new, it's just that our bad habits are so old that even the slightest test makes us all fail it.
Take care of yourself, take care of the society.
May god bless you , your family and the society in which you live in .
Samasthalokah sukhino bhavanthu
well thought out.everyone's concern of the moment.....thara
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