During this time lot of people have lost their loved ones.

They lost their jobs or had to cancel their weddings or their travel plans, and lot of people just lost so many things during this time that meant a lot to them. Lot of people are not handling staying at home as good as others. Some people are feeling more alone than others. Some people are having a really hard time ignoring all the negative thoughts that keep on drifting through their minds. Some people are just struggling to be productive during such a time. And some people are just having a really hard time not stressing out or panicking while watching the news.

And you know one of the things that has been happening nowadays when one of them starts to just unwind and talk about it to others, is that people start to just bombast them with all this positivity, and that how they should always look at the bright side of all this. I know that looking at the positive side and trying to romanticize the current situation is one the ways of trying to survive mentally through what is going on. But still, people who are struggling through all that are not waiting for you to just bombast them with all these positive thoughts just the moment they open their mouthes and start complaining or talking about what they are going through. Maybe before going on and trying to encourage people to look at the half full glass, you can let them feel like they are not alone in this or like they are not complete maniacs for feeling what they are feeling. Maybe you can let them know that it is okay to feel this way. Maybe you can try to actually listen to them and let them tell you what they are feeling or what they are going through, before going on and start suggesting solutions. Maybe you can try to understand what they are dealing with first.

Lately lot of people have just been putting so much pressure on others to just always stay positive or try to be super productive during this time and use it while they can, and even though I know that the intentions are good, but that doesn’t deny the fact that lot of people have been over doing it, to the extent that it is making others feel worse, instead of being there for them in such time and helping them get through it.

I hope that people can understand that it is okay for others to not be okay during a time like this. I hope they can let their loved ones share openly with them what they are feeling and what they are going through nowadays; instead of keeping all that inside of them, because they just feel like they might be perceived as too negative. I hope they can try to give that space to others and make them know that we are all in this together. And that they are under no pressure to keep it all together all the time or be a ray of positivity all day long or that they must be super-duper productive and get a million things done during a time like this.