We, as humans, have survived many crises. Over the years, we have defeated many pandemics and with our constant efforts, we shall be wining over the COVID-19 crisis too. But for this to happen, presently, we will have to adapt to the New Normal lifestyle on a daily basis. Yes friends! Life won’t be the same and here are the 5 highlights of the New Normal lifestyle post Covid-19 that we will see in the coming times where handshake will be the thing of past. Let’s see the new changes coming in with New Normal:
Handshake replaced by Namaste: We saw the likes of Prince Charles greeting people with the Indian Namaste, a traditional greeting style of India where our hands reach is limited to ourselves. Viruses are known to be transmitted by physical contact and therefore in order to keep ourselves and others safe, Namaste is becoming a global norm of greeting people.
Online Teaching for students: Schools are considered as the Temples of Knowledge where students interact with the teachers and play with their classmates while learning a million things besides. They develop their personalities, and make lifelong friends. However, things, it seems, will no longer be the same. We will see that a lot of teaching will be done via online classes on the laptop in order to keep our little ones safe from this pandemic.
Work from home allowed: Internet giant Twitter has allowed its employees ‘Work from Home Forever’. Mostly all offices will go for the ‘only 33% employee attendance’ for a day. This means you will have to go for your office only twice a week. Rest of the time you can work from the comfort of your home and enjoy the extra family time. Yes office gossip and party time will be missed. But then, it will bring families closer who till a few months back, were longing to be together after being busy in their office schedules.
No large weddings, celebrations and tickets for cricket matches: The great Indian fat weddings will be missed! Sad, isn’t it? But what can we do, the government rule says not more than 50 people at a wedding. Weddings and celebrations will become an intimate family affair and stadiums will have no audience for cheering up their beloved cricket teams. Of course we’re going to miss the socializing, but all in the name for a better and healthier future.
Growth of food take-away and online shopping: Going to a restaurant for a nice meal and catching up with friends will be off limits for a while. Restaurants will only provide take-away meals which you can relinquish at home and malls will remain closed giving way to online shopping in a big way. Also we will see the use of online platforms like Facebook, zoom online chat, Whatsapp, etc for socializing in the coming times.
No doubt all these above things are life altering but we can overcome it by the best human traits of ingenuity, resilience and grace. May God bless us.