The alternate universe created by the Covid Pandemic-Part 1
Darn it! Everything changed but I like it, at least most of it. It’s like Alice entering through that miniscule doorway leading towards this fantastical world unbeknownst to me before.
“This is ludicrously strange”, is all I can mutter to myself way past the checkpoint guarded by these uniformed armed-men complying strict orders from the King and Queen.
“Strange but I like it”. The place seemed derelict, apocalyptic, grotesque and yet so alluring. “Ironically though, for real, is this the newfound description of paradise?”, I find myself as if delivering a soliloquy of the situation.
They say it is the “New Normal”, I say this is “In a World of my Own”:
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Cats and rabbits
Would reside in fancy little houses
And be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers
In a world of my ownAll the flowers
Would have very extra-special powers
They would sit and talk to me for hours
When I’m lonely in a world of my ownThere’d be new birds
Lots of nice and friendly how-de-do birds
Everyone would have a dozen blue birdsWithin that world of my own
I could listen to a babbling brook
And hear a song that I could understand
I keep wishing it could be that way
Because my world would be a wonderland
We would have a wonderful night sleep under the shade of our roofs after wandering here and there all day long— it’s the right time to rest we all guess — but that was once a upon a time until we suddenly wake up and find ourselves one day chasing Mr. Rabbit down his rabbit-hole. Rabbit-hole, yes, this Covid-19 global pandemic. It is exhausting and nerve-wracking to find ourselves pursuing to conquer this havoc, perhaps even escape with the help of divine deliverance out of this rabbit-hole, yes.
It also seemed like a dream I can not even be serious. Here I am standing on the edge of reality and psychological disbelief and amusement — seems like the frontier or almost even like the event horizon of a blackhole. The last major epidemic that wiped off majority of human population was time most of us won’t even be existent to be around!
Flashback, two years ago, the world fixated itself following news after news and happenings sorrounding the global pandemic. Hey! I got lost right after we fell in this rabbit-hole, surprise, surprise we all are! Everyone is lost in introspection and anticipation. I try to establish any familiar basis of my former daily routine on this very strange place. I would turn my head around, two full-360 degree spins and all I see is uncertainty.
It is hard to climb back up from this pit. No rescue, no escape, no turning back but the only way is to move forward and along. Darn it! Everything changed but I like it, at least most of it.
— Part 2 coming up —
