Page 18 - Seniors Today - February Issue

First Person

The Mousetrap

The pandemic and the lockdown makes one realise that life is nothing but a
trap – but that’s just one way of looking at it, writes Annette Mueller

The trap seen from the inside
The lockdown, the closed shops, the
prohibition of large get-togethers, parties, S Kumar
travel, and other external pleasures, forces
us to reflect on ourselves. What else is there
to do? We think about ourselves, and how
our life could possibly be threatened by a
global virus so quickly. The finiteness of life
and what have we made of it or what does
it do to us? Are we consciously in charge of If we want to and face ourselves, we can no
our life or do we live as we have been used to longer run away from us. And sometimes we
for years? Happy or not does not matter. The realise:
main thing is convenience. We are trapped in our life and it is ok
But now, in a time of limited distractions because we know this place all too well.
and outside pleasures, can this be our Outside, everyone would be new and
chance to recognise ourselves? What am I unknown. Inside there are the “cheese” and
doing? How do I live? Do I want to live like this is where we want to stay. Even if it can
this? cost us our lives.

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