Quarantine Diary

Inspired by story telling.. here is another one! Hope it makes you to smile..:-) 

Quarantine Diary...

"I have been saving all this money. you do know why it is. right, Ginger?". you do not have to ask me the same question everytime. Ginger was trying to understand her grandfather, and his impossible dreams..

 Grandpa at 150 , slowly munching the bread , was trying to sleep.. it was 8 past 10. His grandson will appear anytime to listen to the stories. His favorite stories always Covid 20.. Grandpa, tell covid20 story..

 "Same story again.. how many times you would ask?."Kid says, "I do not get bored grandpa. Umm.. Listen, Grandpa,  starts, it was not like any world war where people fought  with weapons: either they went on strike without food...."" No no grandpa.. Tell from the beginning.. how it came and what it is..?"

Grandpa , adjusting his specs starts the story.. I was a leader for my country. When I had been on  a Delhi visit. I could not see the road . It was filled with hue of smoke. The enviroment was getting polluted day by day.. The roads were filled with vehicles. Only noise and smoke. There was no tree .Only buildings. I learnt from my spies that, it was not only in Delhi. It was the new normalcy in every corner of India and If that continued , in another 10 years we might have run out of water & oxygen."

 To reduce the cutting down of trees and to bring back the nature,  I introduced digital world  to others around and empathized on using it. My people, stepped into to an extreme level and started living there. Perhaps that stopped them from seeing the reality .. Everything was in the news. They were assuming that it is happening somewhere else. Guilty got on  me..!!"

 "Then, what you did do grandpa…?"

"I connected with my solution provider, Sui Ying . you must know about Sui Ying before I say about the solution, Sui Ying, always found shortcuts for every possible product. Even though it did not have long life, it was a great temporary reliever. I wanted something badly for the moment.. i consulted him.. His idea was to lock in people in their homes and not allow them step up out for a while..I was suprised to hear that and wondered if that would help.. ? why would someone listen.. He said , let’s say virus is out there which is going to eat them like a ghost, invisible.."

Grandpa was coughing.. He took a sip of water.. Kids asked, "what did you do grandpa?" I agreed with him.

"To  save the world from nature, we laid out the game plan. We announced to the world, there is a  virus that spreads from people to people.. if you get connected with or nearby by a human, you might be killing yourself.. People got dead scared. 

Following that, to save the nature, we announced lockdown for 20 days. To my surprise, people trusted and followed us. They did not step out expect few.. so I continued it for some time.. The nature was getting back to its shape.. but then the reality check came in..  

Little did i know that my friend will use the virus on me. He betrayed me..To save the world from me, I had to be quarantine". 

The kids slept. with a soft snore.

Rosie came in and shifted the kids to bed-room.. and noticed the my cylinders are running out.  "Julian, we may need two more cylinders for this month..  Order it before we run out and pay in private.." "Mama, why does grandpa needs these cylinders.. not us?".

Same question! how many times would you ask the same question and why you are out of bed?? Well, Listen to me one for the last time., Roise said slowly.. Grandpa is from the earth. He needs oxygen to breath..  "I know., "the kid says, we are from Mars, and we do not need it and good with co2".

Rosie, says, "correct, go to bed now".

Rosie looks at her Grandpa and prays to fulfill his wish to reach, the earth.

Saritha Subramanian