Food For Thought....

Back to work after a forced short break due to my dear laptop giving up on me!!!...Yes, I actually lost a few mandays with work piling up and some really disquieting, harrowing moments spent attempting to get my system back up and functioning.  I was all jittery and irritated.  Whilst, there was also another part of me that actually considered this forced break a blessing in disguise, in that, all of a sudden, I found myself with a lot of "free" time and also that which would allow me ( I assumed) to do all what I always yearned to do to my heart's content, and that was read, read, read, or may be just laze around, catch up with my friends, visit the local temples, ramp up my exercise routines, try out those numerous beauty hacks that I watch on the gram's reels and so on and so forth; however, this particular comment from my colleague, and to present it in her exact words "faltu ka leave" typical Mumbaiya slang and would roughly translate to, "waste of hard-earned leaves" turned out to be some food for thought for me.  She was of course all of empathy and all, but still, it got me thinking, albeit on a different tangent...The newspapers were carrying some very heart-wrenching stories-that of a death of an Iranian-Kurdish woman whilst in detention, alleged reason for her detention being she was wearing the "Hijab" in an "improper" way. Precious life lost!  It was disturbing news, and then I was like, here we are, feeling justified in fretting and fuming for this little "mishap" if I may call it for having lost out on  a few earned leaves of mine, and out there, the world witnesses misfortunes of the unimaginable kind!!! Unquestionably, the two scenarios are absolutely uncomparable, but as always, my mind always has a queer trajectory. Perhaps, it was my way of teaching myself that life is hard, but a zillion times more hard and strenuous for millions and millions of people.  It is next to impossible for me to even fathom how the family and friends of the one who lost her life will ever come to terms and cope with such a colossal tragedy!!!.  Sadly, these days, such stories are a dime a dozen. I fail to understand why we cannot just live and let live?.  

And then I ask myself was my loss a loss at all?

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