Birdsong Mornings

What do I know of Love? I'm a single 40 year old after all, who hasn't had a relationship in a 100 years, like literally. But then, love is love, and everyone can have an opinion on it, their set of imagination of it, their set of expectation of it, their set of questions on it. As do I. And in this COVID time, when I'm sitting by myself, locked up at home, of course the mind wanders in all directions. Love is the most evident direction - alas, im cliched like that but what to do. Actually its this article I read on how China saw a surge in divorce rates because couples were locked in together for 3 months - at first it just sounded funny but then it left me wondering about human relationships. Are relationships really that fragile? Can the broken never be mended? Are most relationships broken in a sense? I guess there are maybe 3 buckets that relationships can be viewed in (yeah that's the pathetic corporate part of my brain that keeps wanting to surface in this...

These are unprecedented times. The world has come to a halt. A full stop. And who would have thought. 2020 was almost being celebrated like 2000 had been - not in terms of the Y2K kinda frenzy but like a magical number year. But come 2020, and the world's a different place already. We obviously aren't prepared for something like this. Who would be? And ohhhh there is tension, anxiety, fear, ambiguity and what not around CORONA VIRUS. How will COVID unfold. Every morning people world over are waking up with just one question in mind - whats the count today. Every call, every interaction is only around the spread of COVID. Whatsapp is buzzing non stop with more morbid articles, more fake news, more disturbing possibilities and conspiracy theories. Its exhausting! Maybe we will survive COVID, maybe we wont. Maybe Thanos will win eventually, with 50% of our world population projected to be affected by this virus. But one thing I know, we need to be our own AVENGERS and help ...

There has been a silver lining too... you know to me having taken this unprecedented break from work. I kind of ticked off a couple of items off my bucket list. From my non-existent bucket list. To think of it, I have never made a bucket list - is there nothing I wish to achieve? No impossible dreams that I want becoming possible? Oh well, that's some food for thought and maybe for another blogairy. That's a Blog Diary. And I just came up with it. Is there already someone else who's coined this word? Google doesn't seem to suggest so. Is my genius beginning to finally shine? Though in all honesty, its not really an ingenious word - this is a blog and a personal diary too - wola! Thats a blogiary! Genius. But I digress. I started with the silver linings of my break time. I've already made a big deal of the biggest achievement of it all on Facebook, my primary social life - I finally learnt driving. I mean, of course its because of automatic cars and that I had to...