Weekly Off for Planet Earth

Coronavirus has impacted everyone’s life around the world in one way or the other. Most of the large countries have put their people under quarantine. This has reduced so much of people’s activities all around the earth. People in crowded countries like India and China are reporting about how quite their surroundings are at this very moment. They are really hearing the birds chirping and trees rustling around them. The younger kids are awed by this as they never in their lifetime have seen such quite and peaceful surroundings except maybe on vacations to rural areas. The skies are turning blue and the pollution has drastically reduced. People are seeing the yellow sun during sunrise and sunset. This seems to be mother nature’s experiment to show man kind how much different earth can be if they really wish to. Will mankind learn from this experiment and try to reduce their activities which generate noise and pollution? Can we learn to reduce the number of cars on the roads by carpooling? Can we help each other by getting our neighbor’s groceries and save one more car trip? Can companies encourage work from home and give back employees their travel time and save earth from some air pollution? Can we sometimes get out of our homes and connect with our neighbors rather than sit indoors and watch TV? We humans have been given the gift of creativity, communication and power of choice. Will this Mother Nature’s experiment teach us to use those gift in the future and make world a better place to live in?