A Glimpse Through The Life Of A Sailor Queen- Part 2

Nowadays whenever or wherever we talk about, it finally ends talking about covid-19 or lockdown. Due to which many of us have lost their jobs. Many are stuck somewhere far from their hometown/family. Some of our dear ones have lost lives either. If we talk about the same on a large scale, it’s about our economy coming down, unemployment etc. Even it had an effect on my job either. But still I’m here to discuss about the positive side of which I got to experience which I never thought would happen rather than in old age.

As I have mentioned in my previous blog and as the title says, I’m also a sailor queen. And I’m really proud of that. It has made me where and what I’m today. A tough & independent woman. In India lockdown was declared by March end. My sailor was about to join ship by March first week. But he couldn’t as lockdown started in various parts of the world long before India declared. So he couldn’t fly to join.

He came by December 2019. So basically we both were together for the entire lockdown. In a normal situation, if he is here, we would go for some trip(At least one in a month). But due to this lockdown we were stuck in our flat nothing to do. And that’s how we started our experiments in cooking especially non-veg which we usually don’t cook. We spent lots of time and short listing a recipe and once it didn’t turn out the way we wanted, we started making small changes through the recipe and finally came out with the way we wanted it to be.

Another positive effect of this pandemic is that we got chances to revive the relations with our cousins & dear ones including friends through regular video calls & audio calls. We had 3-4 hours long video calls at times. It started with no topic to discuss rather than the pandemic, but later on started with boasting of cooking skills. So each member of that particular video call started to experiment with another recipe so that he/ she can flaunt the cooking skills. Then discussions went on our past trips and planning on future trips together. There were discussions on book read/ art or creativity etc. So even if we had nothing in common (other than the pandemic crisis), we ended up talking about a lot and lot and thus rising a ray of hope in other person.

Apart from this, during lock-down since maid was also not there, we started sharing all the household chores. From cooking, cleaning utensils, washing & drying clothes, sweeping etc we started sharing all the jobs. It was very much fun doing it together. There were days when I got completely rest from all the household jobs. I just had to eat, sleep & watch TV or listen to music or continue with my embroidery or painting.

And moreover, even when we had nothing to do in particular, we tried to stick to a timetable especially on food timings & sleep timings. Before the pandemic everyone was busy. But this time, there was nothing that we could do in hurry. So we enjoyed every moment being together. It brought many people closer. It brought humanity back. It taught us, even when human have control on this earth, there are times when even human have to just sit back and wait for the situation to become favorable. It taught us or made us realize that there are things which can be also beyond our control or rather say, there is some super natural power which all controls or overpowers human power.