Viewing Earth in Lockdown from COVID-19 Pandemic

Woke up this morning, found that today is another day of staying at home when nearly whole world is on lockdown. I thought why not to go in balcony and observe things while I have the time. I went to balcony and stood there, I felt the breeze and looked up in the sky. I felt different, as it was like the sky was clearer than before, air was less polluted, no noise on the road as it was me directly interacting with the nature.

Today world is facing one of the biggest pandemics in the history but it has taught us a lot of things which I would like to share with you all. A message so strong that it has made us look and ponder on our own existence. Earth has told us that humans don't own this planet, we are mere tenants and if we have a misunderstanding of thinking ourselves as the owner of this planet then we need to think again. Humans are only couple of thousand years old but this earth is millions of years old. It has seen a long number of events in history including the ice age, birth of the dinosaur race also their extinction and now the life of humans. We should take this time to observe, accept, learn and to improvise our ways of doing things.

Earth has told us that we need to start respecting other species on this planet too and learn to co-exist because this world is equally theirs as it is ours. We just can't march in forest with our big machinery and destroy the homes of other species and make our own home on the ashes of theirs because the nature knows how to reclaim everything we took in the wrong way, let's take an example that when we settle on the areas near rivers when those rivers are dried but then a heavy rainfall flood that river again and those people who lived there lost their homes in those flood. Why that happened? answer is because we crossed our limits and acquire something which doesn't belong to us. All those climate change activists who were trying to warn us of the consequences today have made us realized that if we don't do anything on our own then the nature will be forced to take control on its own.

Today we see how carbon emission level have gone down, all those cities which were having air quality index to very dangerous level are now having a good air quality index, dolphins have returned to beaches, birds are back in our backyards, animals are roaming in the forest without the fear of poachers and so much more. Our lives are greatly affected too, today we realized the worth of healthcare professionals and need to have a strong healthcare system, oil has no value if we don't consume it, people can work from their homes and it's not necessary to give 10 hours a day in the office, living a hygienic life is not that difficult we can use mask and clean our hands with soap, only women are not supposed to cook and men should also know how to cook for their survival, if we want to live healthy and strengthen our immune system we have to say no to fast foods and sugary drinks, living in a joint family is much more stress free then living alone or living in nuclear family that when we need support its our family and relatives who comes first to give you the aid, we build our homes with so much hard work yet we haven't spent time in our home, countries can also come together and put aside their differences to work effectively for humanity in a collaborated effort. Earth is restarting itself so now we have to restart our lives too with all those lessons which we learnt. Long Live Earth and Long Live Humanity.