View: Never mind giving peace a chance, all we are saying is we need a break

I really think we need a break. We’ve had two years of COVID and now Vladimir Putin decided it might be a good time to start World War 3. Do they have no sense of dignity? What about a year where nothing happens? Where the worst part is we discuss whether Indian cricketers should dance on Instagram or not.

I grew up in the era when the Berlin Wall fell. For young people, it’s called the ’90s. The worst part of the entire decade was Bill Clinton trying to prove that he had no affair under her table. That was the worst thing. I’d love to go back to that.

How did the ‘new normal’ mean that either the whole world dies of covid or the whole world dies of world war? How is this normal? Of course, we have our own woes to fight. Whether a particular movie is really worth watching or not, or whether headscarves should be allowed in colleges. Why doesn’t everyone go on vacation post Covid, post pictures of funky food or waterfalls? Why is our first reaction when we take off our masks? Post-Covid everyone was hoping for air travel and revenge, not the random attacks that stagger the Sensex.

I’m with the Chinese proverb, ‘May you live in interesting times.’ The timing has been very interesting. I want to live in boring times. I thought that was the whole point of Joseph Robinette Biden becoming president. The idea of ​​a 78-year-old leading the free world meant we could all take a long nap on any given afternoon like any Bengali and Spaniard. But now we are on the verge of a possible nuclear conflict and still have to conduct RTPCR tests.

Take me back to a time when the biggest fight on a WhatsApp group was the wedding photo over which relative looked fat, not Left vs Right India – and whether Nehru was to blame for my first girlfriend leaving me was ordained.

I want to go back to a time when the biggest concern of entering an airport was how much extra baggage you had, and not that you would kill everyone just breathing in or die breathing in someone else. I would also like to go back to the times when our movies were about Shah Rukh or Hrithik Roshan dancing for no reason as they dressed up in a chewing tobacco ad, in a UK palace that used to be Amitabh Bachchan’s home. passed. Much better now than when movies are about the authenticity of carnage. Also, it would be really cool for commercial aircraft to fly over Central Asia without pilots looking for missiles from their windows.

We all want a break. Everyone lost work or a relative for two years. Everyone has gone mad by staying at home or has driven someone crazy. we are tired. Now that we have to come out, is our first reaction, bombing, inflation and religious strife? Who needs it? Why isn’t our first reaction ‘let’s swim’?

People might say that this is a silly suggestion when there is so much wrong with the world. But maybe if we were a little bit stupid, there would be little wrong with the world. Maybe Mr. Putin would have wanted to kill fewer people if he watched a little Tom and Jerry, or danced to Hardy Sandhu’s “Lightning Lightning” right after Omicron ended.

Recently, a news anchor shouted at a panelist about the Ukraine war calling him Mr McAdams. The result was that the real Mr. McAdams, an American security analyst, said, ‘Dear host, I haven’t said a word. Why are you yelling at me?’ Where does the world seem to be today? We are all Mr McAdams. Sorry, I mean #WeAreAllMrMcAdams.

Originally published at Pen 18