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Love In Times of Corona

So Junta Curfew starts tomorrow. Some 12 hours later. A pandemic I have not seen in my mid 30 s life and with my line of business, a crazy chaos we are trying to bring order on.

My partner told me of a brilliant idea on what would Gabriel Garcia Marquez would have written should he be alive today.

Have been seven years I have blogged so perhaps the flow wont be a lot.

A lot however has changed in these 7 years. We are all growing older. The small things that gave joys are still giving same set of joys. We have changed as a person, people around us have changed and the way we used to express has changed. What that has not changed is our curiosity.

How will be the love in corona be like ? How different it was from social distancing we need to have.

Was not Florentino not in some kind of isolation ? Isolation inwardly and extravagant everywhere.
Was Fermino not in some kind of isolaton ? Isolated inwardly as well as outwardly .

Social distancing sounds fanciful but have not we distanced ourselves thanks to the technology. A hi,a whatsapp message, is so cool but long conversation so not called for.

An instagram post, clicking more pictures on trips than soaking the feeling in ?

We have already isolated and now we are scared how to maintain a relationship locked down when we have forgotten how to be locked down.

For lovers it is difficult . If locked completely the touch is gone, the eye to eye contact is gone. The out of sight and out of mind can come.

For an old school like me being together matters. And for old school people like me please be in touch for new Love At the Time of Corona can be thought of.



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