"Locked in" By Joy Rajan
Locked in and unable to breathe. I feel the growing pain of being unable to break free. This global outbreak brings out the worst in us. As my birthday draws nearer the realisation of my loneliness becomes more real. I watch the news and read the news. People dying. People suffering. I can only be grateful that I am still working, still healthy. But emotionally? That is a different story. At least it is the weekend. I try my best to go about my day, cleaning, exercising, and staying busy so as not to feel the nag of isolation. What else can one do? I can only hope more and more people would do their part and stay home. It'll be months before all of this will be over. A long, possible six months. Maybe even longer. Who knows really. Sunday came around. I was so grateful to my church to doing service live. I logged into the zoom meeting and waited for it to start. We had catch up time and a new face signed in. At first she was on audio but her voice was un...