Writings of Heart

Fear, Fear is the worst enemy of mankind. We all have learned it from the beginning. It is fear that makes us lose sight. In fear, we often lose our judgment. And then there are times, we fail to see our self-worth in fear. Fear gives birth to an inferiority complex in the human mind. We start doubting our capability in fear. Maybe in fear of losing or fear of humiliation. But it is fear that renders us helpless. And then there is this fear of losing that sows the seed of jealousy in our minds. We fear, losing our loved ones, and jealousy plants its roots in our minds. We fear that someone better might replace us in their life. And when this jealousy crosses the limit of innocence, we grow into a beast. We try to cage our most loved person, in fear. In fear of losing them if we leave them free. But the worst outcome of fear is anger. The fear of losing, no matter if it is the position, power, or love turns us into a beast. In our conflict with ourselves, we somewhere turn into

Pandemic, We all were introduced to this word through our history books. A global pandemic or an epidemic that appears to human life as a hungry beast, ruining everything under its influence. Spanish Flu, or Cholera all were just a mere chapter of our history book with some really disturbing images of the victims that we always turned over in a hurry. Every time, that we arrived at a chapter like that. Other than the page of history book another place that introduced me with this terrible picture of an epidemic was my Bengali literature book. When I was on the fifth standard. We had this story set on the backdrop of the Cholera Epidemic. And trust me I would cringe every time I had to learn that. While growing up, I read about Plague, again on my history book and the destruction that followed as a result of it in Kolkata.  But, that was it. The epidemic was just an ugly and bitter chapter of history for me. At times which would make me cringe or will make my heart beat loude