If we survive the COVID-19, and we don’t redefine whom a celebrity is, our healthcare workers would have toiled in vain.
When the tomorrow we all expect comes, we must let those whose only claim to fame is to sing or act for us, know that, there is more value to life than singing and acting.
We must readjust our thinking to see who means more to us. Is it the one who kicks the ball in the stadium or, the one who sacrifices his life for the greater good.
Stadiums have been closed and so have the studios and we have survived. What we cannot afford to do is to close the laboratories and the hospitals. Isn’t this a great lesson?
COVID-19 has opened our eyes to see those who are testing the dreaded viruses in the laboratories at the peril of their lives to identify who has it and who hasn’t. Who then commands more respect?
It is not clear when it started, but we have been living artificial lives for so long. We depend on what the actors and singers say to the point that some, forgetting that it was the media who picked them from the gutters to their new found fame, turned to denigrate the media.
At least now we are all living witnesses to the fact that, we can live without the footballs, the raps and all the nonsense that come from the studios.
What is preserving us now is the sacrifice of laboratory workers, nurses, doctors, farmers and those we never cared about.
May we not forget them when the tomorrow we await comes!