Throwback, Its March and you are randomly sitting with your buddies having chai, showing each other cringy tik-tok videos, having a laugh over memes and planning going to Baku in June. Ah what a life, you think to yourself now. After such a thoughtful conversation, you go out the streets are bustling, people are arguing over the traffic mess they all created, bikes with shinny colors and weird phrases/symbols (Raja JEE 70, seriously?) go vroom vroom. What an atmosphere, you think to yourself in reminiscence. And in the end you’d take deep breath of the sweet sweet polluted Lahore air and go about your business.And then Corona happened, When it all went crazy (apocalyptic noises).
BAAM, its April, the lockdown has been set in place, its been more than 40 days since you’ve met your friends or any human except your household members. Everyday you wake up like its a sunday, you dont feel the need to change your PJs, they’re probably a part of your body now. Every night you sleep after re watching the same Netflix show you’ve been watching since the year ( admit it, you’ve watched a F.R.I.E.N.D.S or The office episode more than 2 times in this quarantine). Its like living the life of a NPC in role playing game (ugh). Well its better than fighting over toilet paper.
Then you get this mail, your university will start online classes from a particular date and that’s how your life is now going to be.
Online classes could be a sign of the coming apocalypse, but not the biblical one, rather the one where we just stop caring about everything and the world ends. Universities are trying to offload us, the job market doesn’t want us, so i don’t get the point of it, from an economical point you are looking a micro short term benefit rather than a macro effect. Universities save money for the time being since they’re not reopening their facilities, and we all know ZOOM and GOOGLE forms are free resources (boo-hoo get used to capitalism). But every student they offload lets go of the resources and people they were utilizing in educational pursuit (bye bye to them), it also means restarting the economy with a fresh batch inexperienced bachelors competing for jobs is nothing more than throwing them under the bus (But alas, we must serve!!).
Oh well, I did learn and did new stuff in corona days. I made new songs, I had productive music sessions, I learned to make my action better in cricket bowling. Overall, I really miss my old life so even if i see positives from the quarantine, it wont mean much since its an extrovert’s hell, and i am sure am burning.
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