If things were normal, Std 10 and Std 12 students wouldn’t be waiting to finish their exams. Results would be out by now. Students (my son included) would be trying for admission into college, prepping for competitive entrance exams, attending interview admissions, applying for student visas…
If things were normal, children would be preparing to return to school after the summer break. New brown-paper wrapped books, new schoolbags, waiting to meet their friends…
If things were normal, parents wouldn’t be tearing their hair out…
If things were normal, undergrad students would be in exam halls doing final exams…
If things were normal, online classes would never have been…
If things were normal, we’d have the IPL to distract everyone from serious work. Tracking the orange cap, television into midnight, looking for excuses to skip going to the office. Watching other sports too…
If things were normal, we’d be out for daily walks. We’d be at Sports Authority of India grounds, running and working out every other day. No eyes on the weighing scale…
If things were normal, the swings in the parks wouldn’t stop swinging…
If things were normal, we’d have seen a few movies in the malls…
If things were normal, we’d be jostling for space on the Mumbai locals…
If things were normal, we’d have been visiting grandparents and family in Bangalore. With the board exams and Covid-19, we haven’t seen them in almost a year!
If things were normal, we’d have gone for a vacation some place, before stepping into the next academic year…
If things were normal, our culinary skills would not have been discovered…
If things were normal, we’d never have known that Borivali National Park could look like a yellow carpet…
If things were normal, the sensex would be close to crossing 45K… our stocks would be doing great…
If things were normal, barbers and beauticians wouldn’t be out of work…
If things were normal, we’d have been oblivious of the plight of many of our fellow Indians. Things need to change…
If things were normal, we wouldn’t worry about visiting a hospital…
If things were normal, we’d be busy with projects. Now only “nil GST returns” to file…
If things were normal, climate change would be in a different context…
Well, life is far from what we used to call “Normal”.
2020 has been a strange year…
We still have 7 months left in 2020…
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