#Electionnight2

 Wow, what a wonderful day. 

Fourth day of the supercharged US elections.

I read a blog I wrote 4 years ago, disgusted by Trump winning the white House and being saddened by the reality of it. 

And today will be the day he will be voted out by the people of US democracy who made the choice of not having a person like him as their president anymore.

So many things have changed in the world in last 4 years, world witnessed a pandemic of our decade maybe, US lost many lives to the virus, people were thrown into prisons and children were separated from their parents, his reckless decisions brought out movements to end so many wrong things in our society. 

I was a college student back then and now I am married with much more political opinion than before. Now what happens in my country is also equally important and terrifying to me. My opinions are expressed whenever required and I do feel saddened by injustice in my own country. 

While he called climate change a hoax, the earth withered away some more, leading to massive floods, landslides, wild fires and draughts. His stupidity did not matter to earth as the very thing he was saying caused millions around him and around the world make their mind to not to believe in the climate change. 

While he called out the white supremacy his greatest ally thousands suffered from hate and bigotry by those who wanted to feel greater than others. 

But today when people reject him and decide to choose someone else their president who is sane and normal rather than a fake , bigot clown world seems like a normal place now. It gives us energy to fight what is wrong in the world and reminds us that we choose our leaders and democracy always will survive as long as there is truth in the world. 

I saw a beautiful black indian origin woman climbing the ladder and breaking that glass ceiling that a woman can be the second most important lady in the country and she is equally capable of doing so. 

This election was memorable on many fronts and it was to remind us that tyranny and falsehood lasts in this world for such a small time while truth eventually exceeds and kindness wins. 

En route to Veganism!

 I read and watched so many articles,documentaries till the date of veganism. I was getting a good view of the reality yet the environment I was living in did not have supporting conditions for me to get vegan, neither did I have any motive to go vegan. 

But one day my husband suddenly decided that we should go vegan for all the issues that are involving animal cruelty and environmental impact. 

I did want to do this to help my health as well, I was a total cheesoholic my entire life even when I knew each bite I would take was contributing to building cough into my system. I couldn't give up my cravings even when I knew it was hurting me. 

Anyways I never really liked or fare better with milk but recently I had tried these experiments with having turmeric and milk to make it more appealing. 

We finished whatever we could from our remaining pantry and started experimenting with tea without milk. Eventually after some days we found the formula which works for us and we are still in love with this. 

It's difficult to stay away from sweets, prasad, biscuits and chocolates but since we don't really have social gatherings we rarely have these occasions where we have to tell them specifically about our eating habits. 

My in laws have been supportive so far and kind of understand our compassion while my family tried their level best to make me eat fish or meat again. 

I tried to explain them but it felt needless to explain my food choices for the rest of my life. I kind of had this weird feeling where they might force me back to the previous lifestyle maybe in later stages of my life where they feel eating this helps us have a better health. 

For now I am getting used to this because first and foremost it helps my cough situation. I have not had direct dairy intentionally in last one month and it takes away the guilt associated with it. 

The very next day when we were getting ready to go out somewhere and a calf (yes, it's pretty common here since they like the shade and coolness of parking so they sometimes come and stay here in the parking lot) stood next to me in the door and by seeing their sweet watery eyes I felt so good that I will no longer be a cruel person who takes away their food. 

I have seen this horrible practices of keeping a stuffed calf in front of the cow to make her give milk. I was scared for some time as it looked almost ghostly in the darkness and later I learnt that it's actually dead. 

I don't understand how could I be so blind to all this happening around me and still have dairy. How come I never learnt the fact that no animal can produce milk without giving birth? Why didn't I get agitated at the fact that I actually saw someone skinning a goat and still had dinner that night. 

I have been ignorant and absolutely blind to all the signals of this cruelty going around and it took me these many years to finally come face to face with this truth that I have been part of this whole intricate trap of justifying all this in the name of taste and proteins and health. 

While the only naked truth was that we were trained in this system where we find a milk and dairy meant for a calf absolutely normal. We rather promote it in the name of good health. 

I struggle to keep my cravings at a bay but we are still going strong. 

It's been almost 3 months and we do not feel like going back yet! 

This road has been bumpy but it does have its own perks like feeling absolutely fantastic about not being part of animal cruelty, not being ignorant donkey and obviously providing more attention to what we eat! 

The global lockdown for COVID-19

I heard it first when my colleague was just joking about it. I heard it later on the news and then on twitter and then saw several shows regarding this topic. 

I was super busy in my most important day and once I was through it all and watched the next day crumbling down upon us with the global crisis. 

People were scared and stopped at the places, asked not to leave their homes, wash their hands and not to stock up and not to fear and fear and stay home.

Even then people didn't listen and went on hanging out as usual and then one fine day they had to declare it as a national crisis and now everyone is waiting for the day everything will be back to normal. 

A virus which has caused havoc all around the world with its minor cold and cough and fever symptoms and enormous number of people dying because of this seems like an apocalypse. 

I am staying in my in laws town which is closer to a Village and on a weekday when roads seems to be empty it feels as if the zombies have taken over the world. 

My day starts with news about coronavirus and it ends with the news about coronavirus. I read and confirm and keep myself away from the rumours by fact checking everything we see in the news, tweets and what not.

Who knew a common cough , cold would cause entire world to collapse into an abyss.

Cities in lockdown and people not able to meet the communities to avoid spreading this anymore isn't less than any horror movie where we are scared of going out in the open. 

Stock markets keep crashing down every single day, daily wedge workers worried about their next meal, rich and mediocre stocking food and essentials because of the fear of starving in upcoming days. 

My husband said maybe it gave people opportunity to look back on our lives and think how we should be changing ourselves. It gave us a chance to take a break and try to figure out a more better way out there.

In all this shipwreck our environment surely flourished with the less pollution on roads, air and water. 

People could see that not going as per the clock might not be that difficult as thought before and we can still slow down for the greater good. 

Well the economy and the world is still suffering from all of its effects and we certainly will take a lot of time to overcome it, but as they say we have the courage and strength to overcome anything that potentially puts a obstacle in our paths. 

I just wish it will be over soon and we will still be able to recover from its effects as early as we can learning the new lessons this solitude taught us. We can come up with new ways to coexist and reverse the damage done with our actions and live a life of less than more.