The Noblest of All Creatures
For the longest amount of time, I had assumed that disasters bring us together. I had sometimes cooked up a situation in my head where Earth was to be struck by a meteorite and the forecast for humanity around the world was grim or something like an impending alien invasion to destroy the humankind. I had always assumed how these situations would have brought the whole of humanity in an unprecedented togetherness cutting across all imagined and real differences between each of us. Alas, as with most of my assumptions about life and humanity at large, time falsified this one too. This year will be a watershed year in the history of our future. The pandemic (and indeed other ills too, that this year wrought) shall go down in the annuls of history as an era where most of the world simply stopped and waited with abated breath for an end, for a finality, for some sort of alleviation or a ray of hope. For now though, we don’t know when or how this will end but there are things that we n...