Change of Course and the Invictus Spirit

In this hour of self-isolation and social distancing, our soul is seeking a kind and soothing voice. And if we don't get it, we CREATE!

I can't believe that we didn't see it was coming to us, and it came with a surprise. We can call it a known surprise for the so called 'human brain' that is most intelligent natural machine.

This is the time when the outbreak of COVID-19 virus has halted the world by large. By now, we have witnessed the unforgiving nature of this disease. The world has stopped literally not for contemplating over the situation but to fight against the deathly blow. 

Yes, we have stopped acting to defeat something that wins when we act, move, and mobilize. This has shaken the inner peace of humans who had to isolate themselves in their own homes. They cannot be close to someone they care about or someone who care about them. This is a new punishment for the world where socializing has become virtual; where physical gathering and time spending is no longer required to be social.

However, this is not the first disease that attacked the world so badly, but this horrific episode is marked by the new way of staying alive. This will not be last time (I wish it was) when we are locked down), we have always come through as an imperishable soul. We had our bad days, we fought, we died, and we cried too, but we kept sailing through the unknown horizons.

It is the unconquerable spirit that keeps us alive in all that external and internal chaos. Let's not be suppressed by this menace. Social distancing has not stopped us from communicating and sharing emotions. People from across the world have found the way celebrating together by singing and applaouding the soldiers of humanity from their windows. Be it China, Italy, Spain, Iran, India or any country, people are showing their gratitude to the doctors and healthcare staff for fighting for us. They are out on the street so that we can be safe at home. They have courage to see in the eyes of death and bring back our friends to life again. Salute to everyone! We MAKE the sound of life, and we SING the music in honour of fighters.

Let's read out William Ernest Henley's poem 'Invictus' to boost our morale to be victorious again-

''Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.''

Poem Source-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus