“Spirit of Mumbai” is legendary. Whether your house went under water, or you saw a train compartment being blown up, or terrorists held hostages 5 buildings from your work place - we took pride in getting up the next morning, dressing up, jostling on and showing up at work or school or wherever one needed to be!
We just do it, time after time, during natural calamity, grief, loss - we throw ourselves at routine or work. Sublimation- it’s been our collective defense mechanism. We block out the unpleasantness or fear, so we could go on with life, as if nothing happened.
What happened to the victims / their families? How are the authorities handling it? What emergency measures? We don’t delve much into it, for we don’t want the emotions coming in the way of our routine, our professional or social life- it’s both an escape and comfort.
Whether you are a Mumbaikar or not, it’s time for you to strip yourself off the armour called “mumbai spirit” (or whatever you call it in your cities and towns). It’s not going to help this time, to “get up and show up”! That spirit must feel worn out, don’t summon it this time, please!
It’s ok if you missed a deadline, a shipment didn’t leave or had to skip a brainstorming session. Stay well and alive and help others stay well and alive, and you will have enough people to sell your goods and ideas to, hopefully in the not so far future. Shut yourselves at home, so the hospitals don’t have to be bursting at their seams.
Be scared, be vulnerable and stay indoors. “Paranoid survive” is truer now than ever. Being brave worked in most situations. But COVID doesn’t look like just another situation that we got ourselves into. We all know life goes on. But we would save ourselves from horrid memories, if we all slowdown - just a bit. What’s a fortnight or a month in our nice, long lives!? And nice, long life is all what we want, right!?
Loads of love, strength and namaste from our home to yours
We just do it, time after time, during natural calamity, grief, loss - we throw ourselves at routine or work. Sublimation- it’s been our collective defense mechanism. We block out the unpleasantness or fear, so we could go on with life, as if nothing happened.
What happened to the victims / their families? How are the authorities handling it? What emergency measures? We don’t delve much into it, for we don’t want the emotions coming in the way of our routine, our professional or social life- it’s both an escape and comfort.
Whether you are a Mumbaikar or not, it’s time for you to strip yourself off the armour called “mumbai spirit” (or whatever you call it in your cities and towns). It’s not going to help this time, to “get up and show up”! That spirit must feel worn out, don’t summon it this time, please!
It’s ok if you missed a deadline, a shipment didn’t leave or had to skip a brainstorming session. Stay well and alive and help others stay well and alive, and you will have enough people to sell your goods and ideas to, hopefully in the not so far future. Shut yourselves at home, so the hospitals don’t have to be bursting at their seams.
Be scared, be vulnerable and stay indoors. “Paranoid survive” is truer now than ever. Being brave worked in most situations. But COVID doesn’t look like just another situation that we got ourselves into. We all know life goes on. But we would save ourselves from horrid memories, if we all slowdown - just a bit. What’s a fortnight or a month in our nice, long lives!? And nice, long life is all what we want, right!?
Loads of love, strength and namaste from our home to yours
