{"id":3334,"date":"2020-04-26T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T10:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalindianstories.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:01:19","slug":"lockdown-diaries-anwesh-sahoo-shares-his-gratitude-for-the-real-heroes-during-the-lockdown-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/lockdown-diaries-anwesh-sahoo-shares-his-gratitude-for-the-real-heroes-during-the-lockdown-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Diaries: Anwesh Sahoo shares his gratitude for the real heroes during the lockdown in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The entire frenzy around self quarantining in the very initial days of the 21 day\u00a0<i>lockdown<\/i>\u00a0here in India (which has now been extended till the 3rd of May) was baffling to me in the beginning. Perhaps because it reminded me of my 12th board exam preps from 2013, it didn&#8217;t seem too difficult until I landed on the social media with an influx of some personal anecdotes, and some articles dotting the fear and anxiety induced in people due to the complete lockdown. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first few days of the quarantine to me were all about understanding what&#8217;s going on, reading about and knowing the virus, and the more I&#8217;ve read the more I&#8217;m able to look at this time through the lens of a myriad of people around me, what does this quarantine really mean to the woman who I buy vegetables from, who with her naivety\u00a0asked my sister, &#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been a cure to this virus no?&#8221;, what does it mean to perhaps a young teenager who hasn&#8217;t had an easy time coming out to his\/her\/their parents and now has to be in the same house 24*7 without any respite.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3338\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3338\" src=\"https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549-1024x545.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549-790x420.jpg 790w, https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549-640x340.jpg 640w, https:\/\/globalindianstories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200331_123039_508-e1587893452549.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anwesh at home during the lockdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are trying times,\u00a0but this too shall pass. I&#8217;ve tried investing more time than usual in exercising, eating right, learning more skills, and of course working from home on weekdays. With any time left in hand, I continue to invest in my art and share it with the world. I believe that there&#8217;s a lot of power in believing that there are better days ahead of us, and investing as much as we can in reaching that little ray of hope is all that we have.<\/p>\n<p>I did the same when realising I was gay meant the end of the world (to me when I was 16). COVID-19 has already taught us well who our real heroes fighting in the battlefield day in and day out are, and I hope we look at our lives with all the more gratitude and respect, and cherish the ones who matter the most. 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