My Experiments with Time

I came across this Latin word recently, the meaning sounds quite interesting. It means a clean slate, just like the human mind at birth that is devoid of any preconceived notions and ideas. This word seems so relevant during current times. Until a year ago, we all had plans about our lives, including career, travel, entertainment and so on. But for the past one year, there has been so much of uncertainty that I wonder and fear if we will have to reimagine all our plans from scratch. For a year we had been postponing plans, but now things look quite bleak again. There has been so much of unprecedented changes around us, in the way we work, in our education system, and most importantly in the way we interact and connect with each other. Everything is so virtual, that virtual is almost real these days. Recently my six-and-half-yr-old daughter (she insists I mention it that way) casually commented ' I don't think Corona is ever going to leave us. We are going to live with it. '...

It was 8 am, I hurriedly opened the Ola App. There  was a pop-up "Welcome back, please login to proceed". I sighed for the first time. This was just a sample of the many things that would require a restart that day; when you are literally dragging yourself out of home after almost half a year. 'All is well' I tell my 'Dil Bechara'.  I boarded the cab, there was a glass sheet partitioning the front seats from the back seats. I was going to miss talking to these drivers, who sometimes share amazing stuff about the city and what's happening around. I paid using Olamoney for the first time. My mind was still pondering over how we would have survived, if Corona had attacked during the pre-ecommerce and pre-smart phone era. Life in 2020 AC (After Corona) without  the likes of Amazon, Swiggy, Paytm, Ola was unimaginable. Just then the old security guard waved at me, his gleeful smile and the broken tooth were concealed behind the mask. I settled with waving bac...