When Corona arrived, it commanded to wash our
hands. It proclaimed that the only way to be safe is to wash our hands.
And, there is a hidden message in this
command. This message is not only for an individual but for all humanity. Because,
humans’ hands are tainted. Humans’ hands are stained with murder. Murdering
trees and destroying woods and jungles, killing animals and replacing their
homes with concrete, animal genocide, drying up rivers and creeks, wars, and
blood shedding and exploitation, filling every corner of the world with trash,
spoiling laughter and kindness.
Nature had already warned humans in the past,
for overflow of rivers and creeks, tsunami in oceans, earthquakes or in another
word earth’s screams, dry outs, and reluctance.
But human being kept attacking the nature by
riding on an unbridled speed… and now, people are washing their tarnished
hands. The world is becoming calmer now. It is in the news that rivers in Venice
are translucent again and one can see playing of fishes and other aquatic
beings. Oceans are calm and blue. Stars are visible at night and atmosphere is
so clear of pollution that one may be able to touch the sky. Autos are halted
and factories don’t snore. The world is even free of congestion of sounds.
People are busy washing their hands while the
world is pausing to breath afresh.
But these hands are still dirty. They cannot
be clean while we are regretting and missing the past. We miss those bygone days.
Such days that riding on speed, we kept polluting the atmosphere resulting such
unfortunate condition.
Our hands are still dirty. We need to wash
them more. Because we can still fight over a piece of bread or a package of crackers.
We still want to own all the masks and gloves, pass others by and get more than
our share.
Our hands are still dirty, still dirty, and
we should wash them more.
When we hear the warning of the nature, and
our hearts beat, not for the dilapidated past, but for the future, then Corona
will leave us.
