Building Resilience in Trying Times

Now that the unlocking phase is underway, Jeanette Saldanha reflects on how we need to deal with the new normal.

- Jeanette Saldanha

With the unlock-ing process un-derway, people across the world are gradually getting back to work, while ensuring that all the necessary precautions are in place. While a few offices have opened up along with many small businesses and airlines and other establishments following the norms of social distancing and other safety measures, each of us will have to adjust to the new normal and slowly start resetting our lives. Things have changed forever but we all have to work to support our families. Everyone has to make their work environment and home as safe as possible so that every person is protected.

The world right now needs a little bit more of love, a little more kindness and a little more empathy. Choose love above anger, choose selflessness above selfishness. What you give to the world will always come back to you. Let there be kindness in your thoughts, deeds and actions. The saddest stories these days are about individuals who served magnificently during their lifetime and finally died alone, struck down by the vicious virus, separated in death from their loved ones, like the brilliant and gifted Neela Satyanarayan, Maharashtra’s first and highly respected election commissioner.