Tanvi Verma

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest – well, that is a choice. We need to look at the good side of the coin and walk away from the negativity.

Lockdown period is certainly the period that I would like to keep the memory of those activities which I aspired most in my life and did them during this period. I always wanted to do all these activities but the social bondage and the hurly burly city life forbade me to do.

Now that I have had time lately I made the most of it spending time with my parents, family and the loved one by not only doing all that made us laugh and enjoy but relive the memorable moments we used to have in our childhood thus proving the fact that happiness is not the absence of problems, it is the ability to deal with them.

Kite flying is a kind of recreation that I wanted to do and that I used to do when I was a child. Not only my parents, especially my mom, enjoyed watching me do that but themselves participated and proved yet again that age is just a number and we are never too old to live life to the fullest, enjoying every moment. Another cherishing moment of this lockdown was enjoying that evening tea and hearing my father say, every day without fail “Karo voh jo mann ko bhaye, par usse pehle ek cup chai”. We donates tend to have a very different level of excitedness’ for the summers not because of the vacations and ice-creams but for “litchi” and since the very day I came back home I have eagerly been waiting to see the trees full of this amazing fruit.

The cherry on the cake was the presence of my four legged bag of happiness “GRACY”. Trust me, she is the best and sometimes the most irritating alarm clock I can ever have. Apart from being a best buddy, a total saviour from mom’s scolding, she is very caring and loving. Every morning, Gracy is outside my room’s door with a ball, barking till the moment I come out. Even my father seemed to have brushed his football skills with her.

Being born and brought up in the hills has always proved an asset for me. Cycling and trekking have been a part of my life since the beginning ang going back into nature’s lap soothens my soul unfolding the beauty of the world. Apart from that I enjoy working out, pushing my boundaries and this time I worked more on improving my flexibility. Dancing is another hobby and that is what makes me the happiest. Along with my friends, we recreated those school memories and danced our hearts out together a couple of times. A bit of origami and painting along with the studies and all the online classes kept me away from boredom and busy.

I along with all my fellow Insight Flyers are waiting eagerly to fly out to SA and live our dreams, but I would say that we should enjoy this time while it lasts. The world has slowed so we can rediscover ourselves. The key is to stay calm, keep ourselves well equipped with what we really wanted to do all this while and stay connected with each other, sharing our joys and sorrows and having each others’ back because

“If we stay positive in a negative situation, we win.”