{"id":98928,"date":"2020-04-06T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=98928"},"modified":"2020-04-06T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:52:54","slug":"what-is-your-stay-at-home-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/india\/what-is-your-stay-at-home-motivation","title":{"rendered":"What is Your Stay-at-home Motivation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let us stay positive and help each other to stay positive.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The world is changing. And changing in quite unexpected ways. We are being pushed inside our homes, while Nature attempts at healing itself. If anything, the chirping of the birds in the morning and the odd images of dolphins appearing in Mumbai sea or wild and exotic animals resurfacing on city roads are quite a consolation during these lockdown days. Worries are running high and there is no end to it. However, it is better to anticipate the light at the end of the tunnel rather than focus on the darkness prevailing inside it.<\/p>\n

Stay at home, stay at home; they say. But its not so easy to take away the wind that was giving flight to the human dreams. It is not so easy to put a brake on the proverbial race that mankind has embarked on. But today is not about stopping progress, today is not about telling ourselves we are worried or we are alone. Today is exploring the other edges of progress. Seeing my tomatoes ripe each day in my little garden is progress. Likewise, visiting your favourite pages of a book, that’s progress.\u00a0 Learning to discipline the mind to learn meditation on your own is progress. Consistency of building positivity is progress.<\/p>\n

Here is an ode to progress. Two poems I have written on my flighty moments when my want to be positive and to survive this battle called life, induced me to romance with my challenges and led me back to my boyish energy.<\/p>\n

So, what is the mantra that is keeping you positive these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Night without Darkness<\/h1>\n

Yesterday night I was looking for darkness;
\nThere were people,
\nThere was laughter.
\nThere were tears,
\nThere was fear, and
\nThere was light.<\/p>\n

It was a crazy night.
\nFlowers were withering away,
\nTaps were running dry,
\nBowls were begging for food,
\nFood was asking for buyers,
\nBuyers were begging for sellers,
\nSellers were Asking for merchants,
\nMerchants were begging for farmers,
\nFarmers were asking for buyers.<\/p>\n

Some were ploughing back their crop;
\nSome were hitting their wives and children.<\/p>\n

Some were full of remorse;
\nSome were looking for a pesticide to drink.<\/p>\n

It was a restless night;
\nI was missing my soul,
\nI was missing my life.
\nI was in tears.
\nI was in fear.
\nThe world was ending,
\nMy eyes opened,
\nBut the devil was nowhere around.
\nEvil had gone home,
\nThe sun was shining.
\nHope was alive.
\nHope is alive.
\nI will live,
\nI am not going to die.<\/p>\n

Life is Romance<\/h2>\n

Depression has set in.
\nNegativity is high.
\nI am slow.
\nBut I will survive.
\nI will thrive.
\nI am loved.
\nI am cared for.
\nI have my own.
\nI am alone
\nSadness is not good.
\nBlank spaces beacon me.
\nDays make me lazy.
\nNights make me crazy.
\nSleep never comes.
\nSleep never goes.
\nLife is here.
\nMustn’t go.
\nSmile is big.
\nMile-long.
\nLife is a song
\nLife is dance
\nLife is love
\nLife is romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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