Locked Down
Dearest SM, Its been a few months that the world has been struggling with life and trying to find some semblance of reality and stability in this new world. While most adults have bounced back to an almost normal life, the children are yet to see the day when they could run around barefoot through the public parks and gardens. What hit me was an incident in the family where a little child of three now refuses to leave the home. He is mortally scared of the outdoors. The day the lock down was announced, the parents sat the children down and explained to them the fears and consequences of the biological warfare on the human body. They painstakingly demonstrated the necessity of utilizing sanitizers and in a nutshell, keeping a good hygiene. The little one heard it all and his imagination painted him a picture of which horror movies are made: The outside had something ominous, one couldn't see it, one couldn't hear it...and yet it had to be avoided. How does one avoid such an i...