In the world today, about 1,50,000 people die every day for different reasons. Some even die due to car accidents. Luckily the media doesn’t say that even this is caused by Coronavirus. For the media, they need a story. If there is no story, there is no purpose for the media to exist. It is natural for them to add ‘masala’ to make news sensational. But what they don’t realize, unfortunately, is that they have spread a far more deadly pandemic around the world—FEAR.
Coronavirus will go in a few months, but the fear created by television and the internet will take a long time to be wiped out. Instead of accepting life on a spiritual platform, realizing that the body has to die, we are replacing precaution with panic and are killing ourselves far before death arrives. Death is certain. We can’t escape it. But let us learn to live before we die. Let us not die due to the fear of the virus—False Expectation that is Appearing Real.
Can we control death? We can’t! Till we get a cure and a vaccine, can we control the virus? We can’t. But can we control our fear? Yes, we can. Let us do what we can to live with faith and courage, taking the utmost care of those who are vulnerable and putting fear tightly in the refrigerator so that it lies dormant there, frozen and sleeping. It’s time to face the fear, fight the virus and to go out into the world.