Monday, April 19, 2021

~ A Viral Kiss…~

In the erstwhile silence of the night, as I jot these words, I am constantly being reminded by my thoughts about a friend who called sometime back and uttered “ Oxygen level 87 and 100 fever for past 2 days…What should I do?” The next obvious answer from my side was “Gosh, immediately go for a Covid test and if possible, arrange an oxygen cylinder and in worst case scenario – be prepared to be admitted to a hospital!”

Though my utterings were high pitched, I soon realized my folly and took the talk on another subject. It was my soft way of apologizing but after a quick second I again asked him the question “why didn’t he go for the test earlier? What stopped him.”

Though he was restless, but he presented himself in a calm fashion and said “I had gone to two testing center’s yesterday but the queue made me nervous and I came back . I also tried some numbers of labs who were doing tests at home but again there too I was confronted with a serpentine queue. I have no choice but to wait for my turn to come – I have isolated myself at best as I can – having an old father, wife and an adolescent daughter, I cannot take any chances but it is sheer bad-luck that I got infected for no fault of mine…he started to repent the day when he didn’t stopped the maid to start working in his dwelling, knowingly fully well that covid cases had started to rise….

As I have had my kiss with virus, I could only console him and suggest him homely remedies which came out as effective – steam and gargle was on the top of the list, followed by vitamin tablets… to which my friend was quite receptive as he had already started to implement these domesticated measures.

Soon, our talks turned into morbid humor, citing the situation we were stuck in, there seems to be a vicious circle which life was bestowing on us and it was a tough situation to come out of it. You have to be your own senile doctor and need to follow what your mind said at this situation – the more people you will talk with , the more varied set of advice  you would be given – which to heed would become your common sense.

The cerebral mind was constantly nudging me towards the uncertainty of times that we have started to live – never before in our living stance our generation had been a witness to such upheaves of life – we had only read in our textbooks regarding the pandemics and global wars and economic disastrous but now that we are going through the predicament, we can well imagine that how humanity has sailed through the rigor of life.

Albeit with the situation he was in, I just tried to help him by setting him into a positive state of mind, time will change everything , for sure this is the only mantra I work on -  nothing in this world is constant and it keeps on changing , though silently. A true observer cannot obfuscate this eternal truth –

I turned a little spirito-philosophical to send positive waves to my noble friend. The trick had started to work upon him and whilst we exchange goodbye’s , I could sense that there was a somewhat optimistic man on the other side of the phone and that he would be strong enough to negate and win over his situation in one or two weeks’ time – till then I would certainly wait for his din and silently pray and hope that he is able to cope up with his tough time...!!!

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