The new horizon makes us leap to frantically search for motivation and what will keep us going during this post Covid-19 era. With new variants being found in various nations, you can never be certain whether and when to wipe this virulent virus from the Earth. The most predictive distress is due to the dire threat of it being spread to such lovely birds and animals as koala bears, peacocks, dolphins and kittens to name a few, for their fond and friendly “hi-five” capability to their human friends upon the slightest gesture given to these grand lovely species.
Yet people have become so besotted with wearing face mask that they now feel that their photo will get masqueraded behind the veil of a mega cloth, and render their presentability and handsomness into oblivion. Even more of a creative yet fretful sight would be when we find a red colored mask covering the beautiful nose of a dolphin or a grey mask to not allow the lustre of a peacock to radiate. Although it would be quite a fun to watch any kitten ensconced safely beneath a mask of any shape, colour or size!
We have caused the coronavirus to create crippling crisis in not only our lives but also for other living beings.
The least that we can do is to start respecting people beginning with those living with us and then near us. We should strive to salute their spirit for whatever good deeds that they have done or are thinking of doing, for it is this capability of thinking about others and putting the community’s interests ahead of our interests that can alone safeguard the reputation of the human being, once it becomes extinguished or engulfed by the gigantic yet invisible threat of the coronavirus.
We can begin with realizing that giving a mere salute to an otherwise ordinary worker can raise his self esteem as well as lift the value of the nation in front of your own eyes, for you never know the value of that worker to the nation.
The beauty of giving a salute is that is can be silent and can be good for posture as it forces us to visualize the national flag getting raised.
The challenge for all of us is to find those people who deserve our salute and to then record their marvelous acts in our diary of colloquial insignia.
Once we realize that it will take a collective effort for all of us those living with us or nearby us to fight this pandemic, we will start contributing to the society by creating badge of honour or as I call “Colloquy of Insignia”, for these are acts that can raise us to the level of earning an insignia yet in an informal way. We can furtively say “I salute you” to an unmasked yet spirited or a helpful or a friendly neighbour, or we can “Hello” twice and then wait for the reciprocation by your neighbour. Also, you can pick every Saturday to make a handful donation to a needy person who has to win bread for his struggling family and does not have the money or the food or the clothes to do so. Those tiny acts may eventually contribute you to expanding the dimensions of your thought process or your well being, or both, which are pivotal to succeed in today’s competitive environment.
The key is to not rush but rather let such moments flow into you and inspire you to force yourself to think positively about others so that they too can start thinking good about you, with the end result being mutual respect or collaboration, and benefit to the society or the nation.
We can spare some soft laughter for those who choose to befriend us only virtually such as on Zoom meetings!
I would like to end this story by saying that a photo of yours inside an Insignia can reveal so much about your inner confidence as well as hint at the numerous acts of sacrifice and kindness that you would have done in order for others to view you from the glass of repute that had culminated in this most humanitarian award.
You have to believe me when I say that I had found two people who directly benefited from my positive approach while I was penning this story in the last twenty minutes!!
