Coronavirus Exposed Us to Ourselves

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken out the best and worst out of human beings. While instances of volunteers providing food to hundreds of thousands of people across the country have made us proud, we have had an equal number of shameful, even inhuman, incidents where we saw people throwing stones at doctors, police beating the hell out the poor, the rich robbing the food reserved for the underprivileged, and communalizing the disease.

What this shows is that there's not everything is black or white and that there's a humongous patch of

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken out the best and worst out of human beings. While instances of volunteers providing food to hundreds of thousands of people across the country have made us proud, we have had an equal number of shameful, even inhuman, incidents where we saw people throwing stones at doctors, police beating the hell out the poor, the rich robbing the food reserved for the underprivileged, and communalizing the disease.

What this shows is that there's not everything is black or white and that there's a humongous patch of grey that we need to address. We need more dialogue than debate, more trust than suspicion, and more camaraderie than competition. Until we address the darker side of our human minds, it is impossible to realize the dream of a great world.

Nonetheless, all of these frantic incidents have the writer in me a chance to revaluate my perceptions, re-engineer my thought process, and see the world from a different perspective. All in all, I will never be the same person that I was before the lockdown, and I guess most of us won't be. The layers of human behavior and our limitations of being mere mortals have been exposed by the Coronavirus, and this is a great reminder to our race that how cruel it would be to resort back to our insensitivities towards nature, towards the environment, and towards fellow human beings.