Dear Yuri,
I sit in the window of my room every night under the sky, feeling the cold wind kiss my cheeks as I read there at peace. Last night, I finished my book and looked around, the world was asleep and no sound could be heard so far and as I looked towards the sky, I saw a beautiful moon and thousands of stars. It felt as if all the inhabitants have left for space and I am left alone here. For the first time in these 60 years, it felt like your world was brighter than the one where I live.
After a moment of self reflection, I thought how lost we have been in our daily lives just with the desire to survive and not to live it to the fullest. I thought maybe this pandemic is a chance to think about life as something more than that meets the eyes. Think about the bonds we have with our family and know their values, think about life as something we just don’t have to walk through but actually live through, think about the people we love and recall those undefinable feelings that we felt while we crossed our fingers with theirs under the stars in a lonely night.
I once read in a book “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’”. During this pandemic, we all have our ‘Why’s’ but with different ‘how’s’ and I believe we will live through this phase as well. We may not like living a life like this but as they say ‘an abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is a normal behaviour’.
It is true that life has changed here on Earth but haven’t you been living like this for the past 60 years and I am sure at the end of this journey, we will have no regrets and just experiences to share. Through your story, I learned to call mine an experience and I am going to live through this situation in the best way I can.
With love,
Aashir