We are not essential

Children are promoted to the next grades without any exams, everyone including the suits are shut indoors, well the world didn't end, did it? Atleast yet. Turns out our jobs and what we do and how we score and what you think of me, is after all non-essential in the face of life and death. Remember when the world wasn't so clearly divided into essential and non-essential? When we thought that a one day or a week off we take from work will be the end of us, what will the boss think? will my work be rendered worthless? Worse, will the workplace stop functioning without me?! Ah well this is a cruel joke by life, a very tangible material insight into the fact, that we all are infact, dispansable.
The world can make do without you, whoever you are, you're better off indoors. That's your current biggest role in society, to move out of the way of those who we always believed to be "low-skilled" workers. Guess who is holding it together for y'all. Take that, suckers, life must think. We need to know our places, to stay rooted and give back to those who're not so lucky as we are. Sometimes when we are too daft or screwed or our wisdom is too clouded by "non-essential" issues, nature steps in to do the job.
Not sure, if we'll survive the disaster, but if we do, there MUST be a perspective change. We are NOT the centre of universes. Take care of your loved ones while you still can and don't be an idiot. Patience, empathy and not being an asshole will get us through. 

मै ठीक हूं

हुआ यूं है कि मेरे अंदर एक पूरी सदी बीत गई है
कई तूफान आकर गुज़र गए
कुछ किस्से अधूरे चोड आयी
कुछ किस्सों ने मुझे चोड दिया
एक तारा मर रहा है मेरे अंदर
तुम्हे शोर सुनाई देता है?
यहां जो मै खड़े होकर तुम्हे सुन रही हूं
क्या तुम्हे मेरी हसी आंखों में दिखती है?
ये जो विरान रण भूमि है मेरे अंदर
उससे कहां भागूं?
मै जब ठीक हूं बोलती हूं
क्या मान जाते हो तुम?
चलो फिर मै ठीक हूं ही सही