Now or Never
By: Dara Singh
Tags: Covid Diaries, Life Lessons, Humanity, Pandemic, Covid-19

Now or Never

God created this beautiful universe and chose earth for the existence of life. Nobody knows exactly how the universe was created or if there is any other planet with existence of life and science is trying to find out all the possible theories behind the creation of universe. Sometimes I feel is it really necessary for us to know why and how the universe was created? I don’t know about that, and maybe I don’t care much about the answer. But there are questions which crossed my mind, and I felt that I should pen them down so as to remind myself what we are and why were we created.

Why did god create life and, more specifically, the human beings? Why are we superior to other life forms on earth? Was god having any purpose behind the creation and evolution of humans? Are we really living up to the purpose of our creation.?

I m not a philosopher, but in the past few days, I have been reading about the pandemic and its impacts, elections, farmer protest, Kumbh Mela, share markets, etc. COVID has wholly shattered the world, and India is amongst the countries with the highest number of COVID cases and deaths. Every day I hear about people dying due to a lack of facilities, beds, oxygen, and medicine. The situation is totally out of control, and we all are feeling helpless. Amongst all this havoc which the world is facing, there are certain other highlighting issues which I keep hearing, and I ask is it really a good time for all this?

The share market frenzy of Game Stop, Cryptocurrency, and people taking advantage of millions of people lost their money. Share markets and crypto shooting and surging like anything and people discussing taking advantage and opportunities to make money. People are in their race to make money thinking such a pandemic is once in a lifetime opportunity to build wealth and grow. I even heard people black marketing vaccines and selling human organs to make money in this pandemic. But while I was thinking all this few more incidents came across me wherein even the rich are dying of COVID because the hospital facilities have run out of beds and oxygen. It seems like even a wealthy person is helpless and certainly his money isn’t helping out. People are making. fast money for their upcoming generations, but unfortunately, even the kids and infants are dying. What’s the use of this money then, and for whom you are making if there are no generations ahead.

Governments are playing the blame games of how ruling parties are not able to cope up with these situations and failing to meet the requirements. Do you think it is an excellent time to play political games? Shouldn’t we all be working together to fight this pandemic and sort these issues once we deal with the pandemic? Changing people’s opinions will not help you if they all are going to die. Who will give you votes then?

In most countries, people have turned against the government, saying we will not follow COVID restrictions. Maybe to some extent, both government and the people are right on their part. But then I came across the pics of government rallies of elections, people celebrating Kumbh Mela, and farmers protesting. It seems like neither the people nor the government are interested to understand the problem and act accordingly. Let’s leave aside the fact that such mass gatherings will lead to the spreading of the pandemic for a moment. But my question is, what do you you do when somebody dies at your home? Don’t you think this planet, this country is your home, and as of now, everybody is dying at your home. Should you really be protesting or rallying or celebrating when your people are dying? And who knows, you yourself might become the cause of death for your near and dear ones.

Now coming back to my series of questions in the second paragraph. I don’t know why God created life on earth, but I firmly believe he created humans in divine image giving us special abilities. to preserve life on earth and look after rest of the creation of the god. His purpose of making us different from other animals and giving us abilities was for the greater good, wherein we evolve and make this planet an even better place to live. He has sent us to do things which he cannot do for everybody, i.e., looking after each other and helping each other in times of need. He could not be everywhere for everybody, so he made us as we say in our culture that god resides in the heart of all human beings. I don’t think we are living up to the purpose of our creation. Our greed for money, power, personal interests, and hatred is becoming the reason for the destruction of none other than our own lives. Today when everybody is dying of this pandemic, it’s time that we understand the purpose of our creation and start living for each other and help each other. So here few more questions you should ask yourself.

“Do you want to be a government who wants to elected at the cost of the life of their supporters? Or do you want to be devotees who please God by sacrificing human lives? Or you want to be a farmer who is only producing ashes of dead bodies? Or you want to be a human being who couldn’t do a small bit for preserving its friends and family?”

The pandemic can only be tackled if all the citizens do their bit of what is required to control the spread of the disease and fulfill the requirements of resources. Think and Act before it’s too late. It’s now or never.