On confinement at home! March 21, 2020 For blogpost by Vijay Bhatt

On confinement at home! March 21, 2020 For blogpost by Vijay Bhatt

Dear friends: We are passing through unprecedented times. No one has any such experience before. We are all confined to our homes with limited movements and interactions with outside world.

Today, we did something unique! To experience togetherness, feel that we are with others who are in the same boat, there are others who would say what we say and listen to what we have to say, almost like a support group-

Several of us, a group of close friends, decided to meet on a conference call at 4:00 PM. Our spouses also joined. We each got couple of minutes to give updates of our daily lives. How much we exercise, how long we meditate, which movies we watch till wee hours, what creative food we make to keep life interesting, What home improvement projects we do. What are our kids doing. How to cope with loneliness. What are our goals for next 5 days before we meet again on the phone as a group.

We learned how easily we get annoyed spending criminally(!)more time with our spouses than we normally do.

We also reminded ourselves that when we were going out or we were newly wed, we had dreamed of spending unlimited amount of time together. Now is the time nature gave us such opportunity!

We have time to catch-up decades of time we wasted on freeways, at offices, at work, and travel.

Let us 're-invent' our union as a couple or as a family!

Let us not waste this golden opportunity to know your spouse, kids, and family whom we thought you know, but now it is time to 'live with them' and enjoy their company.

Every cloud has a silver lining!

Let us be safe and keep others safe!

On confinement at home! March 21, 2020 For blogpost by Vijay Bhatt