Relationships that even COVID cannot break
With the onset of COVID, one of the things that became very clear were the two end spectrums of the scale on which i would rate humans, or at least the people i know. On one hand were the overly cautious - depressingly isolated - it is best not to meet them in case we give them COVID - kind of people and on the other end were the- idiotic- COVID is not real- chain of people. Most of the people i know were floundering about in the middle of these extremes, and then there were some yo-yoing from one extreme to the other like the COVID waves themselves. And beyond that is - family. Not your immediate family with whom you are connected on a day to day basis, but relationships which make you take a leap, albeit a hesitant one, into the public space. Relationships that are not based on proximity or practicality, but invisible bonds that tie. Bonds that are often forgotten in our day to day lives, but bonds that keep you strong when you need the strength the most. People that do not talk to