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"10th April, 2020." 02:30 AM at Home.

This is quiet rare or I can say the rarest of the rare. The kind of things happening first time ever in my life, Nowadays. Just like I am feeling trouble in sleeping at a great extent tonight.

No no.... This feeling is not the actual reason behind sleeplessness, but the main reason is this Lockdown for 22 days behind each and every problem from 24th March to 14th April, 2020, due to the spread of COVID-19 Virus.

Actually this Lockdown comes into the action to prevent the spread of this Pandemic virus.

This is to maintain social distancing from each and everyone because this Virus spreads through person to person contact and shows it's symptoms after 7-10 days, so as to prevent the deadly spread of this Covid-19 Virus.

As per the ideal studies and guidelines our Honorable Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi implemented this Lockdown in entire Country for 22 days. Even only 4 days are remaining and now guess what?..... 

An Extension! What????

Yes, due to continuously increasing cases with respect to the infection leads to an Extension in this present Lockdown.

Quite miserable. Oh God please save us....

I don't know how the upcoming days will be. 

Even last Sixteen days were quite confusing nowadays, 


"Weekends become week days or week days become Weekends."


Everyday is just a day in recent scenario.

Due to this Lockdown, I am alone at my Home and even I can not go anywhere and nobody from my Family and friends can come here.

Have nothing to do particular except passing the period of this Lockdown.

The daily routine includes making phone calls, doing video calls, watching News and Movies on Television, Eating self cooked (not properly cooked) food, doing work from Home and sleeping in an improper manner, that means completely an improper routine.

Initially at the starting of This Lockdown, it seems very good and quiet Interesting because I have alot of pending in home works as well as some official works that I have to complete from my Home, but it takes only 2-3 days to complete all those pending works. After doing that, now I am completely free from all pending works.

And now doing work from Home, attending conference calls with my Colleagues, doing video calls with my Family, watching Television specially news channels, cooking-eating and sleeping becomes the part of my daily routine.

In general, I am not a Television addict. But what I could do when living all the time 24×7 for up to 22 days at my Home.

Generally I prefer News channels over other Entertainment channels in this crucial situation to stay updated via these news channels.

They gives us information around the globe, across entire Countries.

As I said that, when Lockdown started initially some days passed very smoothly

after that things becoming messy firstly due to Eating improper self cooked food, I've encountered some health issues, after that getting same News all the times everywhere now makes me annoying, now time to switch from News channels to Entertainment channels to relieve some stress, now work via work from home is also continuously increasing day by day including Online Tests, making videography, attending conference calls for Hours, reduced amount of fresh air due to not going outside from Home.

These are the common problems arises during The Lockdown, So now I see a Little bit of News and more of Movies and songs, But from last Six days, I am continuously disappointed as Something went wrong with me every Day.

On the 10th day of The Lockdown, another problem arises as something went wrong with my Television or cable operator network it shows some kind of error in starting the program.

I thought it could fix Automatically by itself, as some temporary problem can arise anywhere. At that day I became so bored. Along with all the routine work I read online news paper just to stay updated as Television was not working. I spent my day some how.

On the next day, the same problem persisted and no signal was found on my Television. Now It's going to be frustrating even though I decided not to call the service Engineer because it may be possible they won't come due to the Lockdown. Also It's quiet risky to offer a visit to an outsider in this Lockdown so as to maintain social distancing. 

But this decision of not to call for service Engineer initiated an Idea(Human Psychology) to call for an Engineer visit to fix the problem.


"Sowing an Idea, In terms of trying not to Sow Anything."


Then after that, I tried calling at their customer care center and guess what? After about 50 minutes of waiting in a queue of call, I could speak up with their customer care executive, On asking about the problem, I explained each and everything after hearing my problem the customer care executive generated a complaint no. and said to me, that it may take 1-2 working days to resolve your problem and the inconvenience caused due to the Lockdown effect.

This Lockdown has affected their services and visits of their service Engineers too.

Then I said, ok resolve it as soon as possible, If possible. 

Now here, I didn't mean that resolve the problem by means not following the Lockdown. 

I said that, If possible then only provide your support and service Engineer visit as soon as possible. This was the 11th day of Lockdown. 

Now I've started playing games on my Mobile phone so that I can manage my Entertainment hours timing during this Lockdown so called boredom.

I spent most of the day by playing games on my Mobile. 

On next day i.e. 12th Day of Lockdown, 

When I get an early call in the morning from local service center the authorized personnel asked me about the problem and gave me assurance to resolve my problem, if he could find An Engineer for this task.

Now from that day to till date in about 4-5 days they couldn't find an Engineer to resolve my problem. That doesn't matter, Actually I was expecting the same thing from them so as to keeping safe social distancing. 

Well after doing work from Home I wasn't expecting the next problem simultaneously, when I was about to take a shower..... but their's no water from the shower..... What? Surprisingly no water at all. I mean It's not necessary to take a bath because I don't have to go anywhere but I think water is necessary for drinking purposes and believe me I've only one

 water filled bottle and an empty RO water purifier, Great!

I woke up a little earlier and I 'hv to appear in an Online test conducted as a part of my work from Home, at that time no power supply was available from Electricity deptartment.

So I decided to switch on RO the power supply comes, but before that I came to know the fact that their's no water at all. I enquired about the problem and got to know about the short circuit at the Motor House. Some of the responsible persons of society members were already there to fix the problem while maintaining the proper social distancing as wster os necessary for everyone.

In each aspect of day to day Life.

The problem of water got solved till the evening and believe me managing a whole day with no or less water is dangerously scary.

That day I decided,

not going to sleep ever, without filling RO proper.

I've seen so many good and bad things that one can encounter in day to day Life in this lock down. Ever majorly in last 5-7 days but who knows the worst thing that one can face is waiting on the next coming day.

Now with every new day resources are continuously decreasing and do as the tools of Entertainment too.

Then comes "THE 17TH DAY OF LOCKDOWN."

That's 09th April, 2020.

As after Television I've shifted to my mobile phone for gaming and Entertainment purposes after playing games on Mobile for hours Sleeping hours Automatically increased, so now I am totally dependent on my Last hope in terms of connectivity and Entertainment purposes that's my Mobile, That means When I'm not sleeping I'm surely killing time over Mobile even during cooking and eating.

On this 17th Day Of The Lockdown I lost my last hope of survival after Roti(Food), Kapda(Clothes) aur Makan(Shelter) probably the 4th element for each and everyone that's Mobile (A cell phone with or without Internet) A Mobile is now becoming a basic need as I am feeling right now more then the redt of the Three- Food, Clothes and Shelter.

The only way to connect with My Family, Friends, Colleagues and Anybody else or can say entire External world, during this critical Lockdown was my Mobile but one of the worst and the last thing that could happened in the last 17 days of Lockdown. 

My mobile was on charging mode only 2 feet above the ground Level over T.V. showcase and I was in sleeping mode after rigorous gaming hours last night.

I kept my Mobile on charging and slept. 

Then I got a call in the morning and I hear half ringed bell a kind of missed call.

Then I reached to the Mobile to check the missed call but as soon as I touched My Mobile I'd not believed that the Mobile was heating at such a great extent, immediately I switched off the button of charging plug.

And let the Mobile to cool down to normal temperature. After cooled down to normal temperature when I tried to operate my Mobile their's nothing happened at all. After that I have tried all the possible ways to try to switch on but it doesn't wants to.

So now, I am at my Home alone without operative Mobile Phone Literally Locked down completely in real means.

I'hv cried even after so much of controlling my feelings and emotions because if Mobile is not going to switch on I can't talk with anybody anymore till the Lockdown ends and even I can't go out for Mobile repairing purposes or purchasing a New Mobile.

Because there's no one outside who sell or repair the Mobiles in this Lockdown.

The entire 17th Day of The Lockdown I'hv spent via sleeping from day to night without cooking or eating anything.

So by sleeping extremely longer period of time is responsible for back pain for excess sleeping as I have nothing to do without Mobile.

And an empty stomach cannot allow a peaceful sleep and an Anxious mind leads to symptoms of sleeplessness.

By including all the factors all together I'm feeling trouble in sleeping Tonight.

Posted Apr 11, 2020
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Aafiya Sheikh
17:26 Mar 28, 2023

❤❤❤❤

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Aafiya Sheikh
17:25 Mar 28, 2023

chachu!!!!!!! amazing story of the lockdown. I love it

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18:35 Mar 28, 2023

Thank you Betu for the Nice and Amazing Compliment.

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Clynthia Graham
20:45 Apr 14, 2020

This was such a distressing piece. I enjoyed the writing and there were some very good and strong sentences.

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14:03 Apr 15, 2020

Thank you #Clynthia Graham for your nice compliment and spending time reading this, hope worth reading this story.

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