I found this image on the internet and when the facts were in front of me it kinda came as a a shock. Well.. for India it might not hold completely true. P is in grade 6 and for her the last normal (almost) year was grade 4. They only lost the last 20 days of school for grade 4. But yes it was an abnormal ending for a school year.

But now I think there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. The third wave for us came much after the rest of the world and it was so mild compared to the previous one. Lesser serious cases and much lesser death rate than before. For most it was just a mild cold, cough and fever. Just like a flu. This time all adults in our house were down together. We didn’t even isolate 😀

Schools are opening next week and boy, are the kids happy. The moment the email came from school they both made up a ‘back to school’ dance. When their dad came out of his room they were dancing and singing in front of him and putting up such a show. At first he couldn’t understand what was going on and he thought it was just another game but slowly realised they were singing the words “offline school” and doing a dance 😂

I don’t know what the experts say but as a layman I feel the end of this tunnel is here. There’s light ahead and very soon we can expect things to be normal again. It might be a “new normal” but better than being locked up at home. The children have lost too much during these couple of years. There is a lot they need to cover up. Hopefully the damage will go. Even if it takes some time. Hopefully the kids will be able to go to school again (for the sake of their sanity…. And ours 😋). Hopefully we will see mask free people again and be able to smile at them. (Doesn’t it happen that someone you know is in front of you and you don’t recognise that person because of that mask? ) Hopefully we will be able to recognise people again! Hope keeps the world alive….. and hope has seen all of us through this pandemic. Many people lost their loved ones. There isn’t a family where at least 1 COVID death hasn’t taken place. Hopefully this is the end of it……