Amid all the positivity and the news of, first, the Janta Curfew, District wise curfew and then the pan India lockdown which will begin at midnight for the coming 21 days. The long three week curfew. It is the real testing times for the small businesses like us. The people who work from home throughout the year, round the clock. The people/customers are busy hoarding the groceries, detergents and what not. We suffer. People fail to listen. People fail to comprehend. People, like my parents, fail to grasp the how difficult this situation is. How they, more than me and my brothers, need to isolate themselves for a while and go into hiding? How difficult it is explain it to them? How far are they going go fulfill the demands of their customers? And if, only if, this pandemic is real they are keeping their lives on the line. When will parents start listening to their kids? I know we are a ducked up generation. We lack a lot. We have been worse in every way possible. But please listen when somebody is advising you to stay away. And, yes, now I am panicking. Now I am succumbing to this mayhem of corona virus disease. I am failing but it's okay. This too shall pass.

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Love brings me to the forfront of the world and asks me to abandon all my beliefs. Love thinks it will be easier for me. It will be easier to give up on all what I have, seen and done thus far. Love believes it is easier to live that way. Love believes in himself and asks me to do the same. Love says I am a warrior once forgotten. Love reminds me of my victories. Love likes me to give up on him and live free and disappears in the hazy memories that I have of him. Love doesn't like to be tied to the world and he says I am his world.

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One day I'll sit beside you and tell you stories I could not write, the stories I left in half and the stories that left me with a greater sense of empathy and the stories of the people that meant the world to me. Meanwhile, I ask for your patience. I ask for you to love me enough that I feel your warmth even when we are not together. I ask for you to be here for me when I come back home. And I, I shall do the same for you. Because love can only be felt and not spoken. I'll make sure I shall keep loving you the same when we are here. Let our love not go in vain.

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Also, we had so much in common that we both wanted to drift apart while the other person wasn't looking. And that's how deeply we loved each other. And that's how deeply we engraved our love on each others' bare soul. The only thing we wanted was not marriage, neither it was to spend our entire life together but to stay in each others' memories as fresh as the morning breeze as awakening as the thought of our parents getting old.

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The reason, most of the times, why people don't tell you that they appreciate your art is either of the two.

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Doing what you really want to do will always be harder, than something you do for hobby, because in it you don't accept excuses, nothing is acceptable if it is even a little less than 100%. It will give you the anxiety to surpass you every single second of your life. It will not let you have your way with the things half done or the things done half heatedly. Here, you will need to pour all of yourself out until you are hollow from the inside, until you have nothing left inside of you and until you feel you have nothing more to give to this world and to yourself. That's the moment when the true magic starts shining and that's the moment when what you have learnt and all the hard work that you have done will culminate into something that you have never imagined for yourself.

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Never really being aware of how to unlock that door because you were super anxious and just so unsure about it. But you have seen other people going out when you were here before, you have experienced yourself being out of this enclosed space that you have entitled as your own. As your own cage?

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While self love is important and that's what everyone is going to say to you which, I think, is not totally incorrect. Seeking for love outside is equally important, human and rational.

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Look, you have been too accommodating to the people who don't know how to reciprocate your feelings. You have known that they are not the ones who will know the efforts you are making, how you are getting yourself to do certain things, the ones you had never thought of doing even for yourself.

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Where's all the courage you had gathered in all the time that you have already lived? Have you already forgotten who you are and what you can do when you set your mind to it? Are you really a coward as you pretend to be? Are you really that scared of everything that has never happened and that is never going to happen?

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