TONIGHT .....

           '' When  you have something to say

          Silence is a lie......''

       It's past midnight and I am still wide awake, the same has been happening for the last few weeks. As the second wave of the killer covid has started striking the unsuspecting people around and the death toll is growing higher day by day, life is again faced with the cruellest enemy ever. Day by day, it's getting increasingly difficult to cope up with the prevailing situation. The whole environment is flooded with depressing news, with little comforting vibes from anywhere.  This makes me feel so very nervous in spite of all my optimism and positive thinking. 

 Never before, had I felt so helpless and miserable. I hear about the illness and hospitalization of a friend or relative but cannot rush to be by their side to share their pain and support them in this tough time. Worse still, we can not be even with our close relatives or friends at the sad loss of a precious life. All you can do is to send a note of condolence or make a phone call to register your sympathy. While doing so, you very well feel the hollowness of your own words which can hardly be enough consolation.  yet,  ironically, that it is the only option left to express your sincere feelings.

  To say the least, never before had we come across such a painful, trying and terrible situation. How long this chaos will last, no one can know, except, perhaps, the Almighty God Himself who has been the ultimate resort forever, for all the believers. 

             May all our combined prayers reach His kind ears and exort Him to shower His mercy on the mankind reeling under the cruel effects of this unprecedented calamity!      

  May 2, 2021