Pray for India, Pray for the World 🙏
Namaskar Fam 🙏
As a kid, I used to pray to get the power of flight so I could travel to any corner of the world to help those in need. As I grew up, I realized that it was too far fetched. However, I still believe one day in the hour of utmost urgency I would be able to unlock the ability to fly.
There were so many times I wanted to unlock that ability, especially when our planet faced atrocities like The Australian Bush fires, disaster in Lebanon, and when our world was first hit by covid. Covid is an ongoing crisis across the globe, especially in India right now since they provide > 60% of vaccines to the world. India was doing an excellent job helping other countries with the vaccinations but due the second wave of covid, they are currently unable to export vaccines to low and middle income countries, so it will now take longer to vaccinate our world.
Please, if you can, donate to these verified organizations as they are actively involved in providing necessary covid relief in India ( simply click on the name and it will take you to their official website )
UNICEF NZ
CARE India
Sewa International
Give India
Isha Covid Action
I feel that whenever we face any atrocities as a planet, we work as a team, as though it's a team building exercise for everyone, because at the end of the day, we're just one big family and we're all connected. I truly believe Everything in our universe is connected, like every single particle, the visible and invisible, it is all connected.
For example, the rocks that float in space, the invisible air around us, we humans and the list goes on. So if there is any commotion even with just one human being, the rest of us are impacted by it directly or indirectly. This is why I always say that we're one and we all act as one unit of this planet. It's similar to how the cells in our body are connected to one another, example; when a part of your body is injured, all the white blood cells will immediately rush to the affected body part to provide the necessary aid for a speedy recovery. Similarly, if one part of our world is affected, we all can rapidly soften the blow with our unity. It truly warms my heart to see all of us in this together and we are united more than ever.
I don't follow any news because it makes me feel helpless especially when I come to know about the calamities across the globe. I feel this way because I have been living on my own without any of my biological family around and through my 13 plus years of life's journey, I discovered everyone on the planet is my Family so it gives me a lot of grief when I learn about the millions of lives throughout the world being affected by crisis like covid.
I believe in efforts plus prayers, we often succeed when both of these are combined in anything and everything we do. Few things I can practically do right now to help me with feeling less helpless against the current situation:
wait for my power of flight to kick in.
raise awareness so we're united more than ever.
share links for verified fund raisers.
request everyone to send their well wishes and prayers.
My heart goes out to everyone on the planet being affected by Covid specially people in the following countries: India,United States,France, Turkey,Russia,United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina.
If you are affected directly or indirectly by the ongoing covid crisis, then:
please hang in there and try your best to look after yourself and others around you.
watch news in moderation ( specially covid related ) because that may have a negative effect on your well being.
take some time off to connect back with yourself.
connect with people you haven't spoken in a while.
tap into your artistic life because that can bring you lot of joy and calmness.
help others cope.
And I'm very hopeful that this will all be over very soon for all of us.
I, Pratik Ishwarbhai Patel, am grateful for life and everything in it 🙏🏼
