It was November 2019 when a woman got married to a groom of her choice. She wanted to spend quality time with her husband in a foreign destination after some months because the couple couldn’t get sanction for an extended vacation from their employers, so they planned to go for an outing in April 2021 as by that time they will be settled in their new lives.
However, as 2020 started came a pandemic called coronavirus disease outbreak that led to people started talking about the new virus and how it is affecting people’s lives in the world and how a lockdown should be recommended and imposed by the government so that people no longer live freely and travel outside without any reason. Then came March 2020 when the nationwide lockdown happened and changed people’s lives in minutes.
Children could not attend schools and colleges as they were shut, elderly people couldn’t visit religious places and parks to pass their time, office-goers couldn’t visit their workplaces as local trains and public transport were halted. Marriages, funerals, birthdays, and any major religious functions couldn’t be held because crowds were not allowed. The pandemic’s effect on humans losing their lives and bodies lying in the crematoriums created an atmosphere of living life in a hell, which was not even imagined before.
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Corruption practices increased between ambulances, reaching to the hospitals, getting medical treatment, getting jobs, cutting off salaries, businesses losing their sales, and working harder than usual to get the funds to maintain its operations. Coming back to this young lady who got married two years back, she felt so depressed staying at her in-law’s home and not able to go out even to her workplace, that she returned back to her mother’s home and plans to end the marriage in a divorce.
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What can be done? If you see the above are real-life examples of the changes that have happened to everyone in their lives. It’s how one accepts these changes that help him or her to come out of the mess that the pandemic has caused.
