"Be negative, but stay positive" was one of the fun wapp messages sent to me. The negative therein refers to the stage of the Corona affliction, and the positive to the possible attitude.
Currently, however, both appear difficult. What with the newer variants by the day of the coronised world, even a simple cold is worry some, especially because the newer virus versions/editions are both, easily caught, violently virulent.
Newspapers are yet again full of the numerical data regarding the virus spread, the "jumbo's" everywhere are up again, messages regarding stages of the dreaded disease, how to "treat" them have started doing the rounds. Back to March 21, 2020 and/or April/May, 2021!?!
No nostalgia for me though. Given the huge difference! Constantly to be taken care of, to be attended to, Aai was there. When I first explained to her the total lock down, why Raju would not be able to come every weekend, why Sanju's visit would not be possible till the conditions are better,she had told me of the plague in her childhood, how they had in her childhood travelled from Pandharpur to Gursale, and how her paternal/maternal relatives would meet them at the station, but never invite them home, given the fear of infection. She also told me of the constant mini epidemics in Pandharpur due to the "wari" influx, how the municipal authorities would initiate the usual cleansing up, the stench post-Wari, and all such details.
Now SHE is not there.
As it is there cannot be any nostalgia for a dis-eased period. For me, though, neither nostalgia nor positivity is possible, given the tectonic shift.
Though she would not suffer all the horror consequences of the epidemic, and I am happy that all the pandemic negativities would never now ever hurt her, how my heart wishes, SHE WERE THERE !
Pratima@ memories immemorial!
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