write a letter to your friend "how to stay safe and how to keep busy at home during holidays".
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There have been excellent initiatives taken by all governments around the world to contain the spread of the pandemic ("Coronavirus: Stranded expat student thanks UAE for bringing her back safely ", Gulf News, April 7). In India, all of us are trying hard to contain the coronavirus from spreading, however it is strange that no one is talking about its origin. This pandemic can happen again if humans commit more cruelties against wild animals, we have learnt.
We have slaughtered and butchered animals for our taste and we have no remorse for it. Now, Nature has given humans a very tight slap and we are running helter-skelter trying to save ourselves. We have been confined to our homes because now we are afraid for our lives. Even then we are not realising that life is precious.
This global situation will not last forever but let's hope that we will learn something from this, and reduce cruelty inflicted on animals. For the first time in the history of the world, Nature has made us realise that we need to mend ourselves and mend our ways. But the deafening silence, which is prevailing on the subject about the origin and the reason behind the origin of the virus, is baffling. It seems that most humans are still craving the taste of these exotic animals. It seems that there is so much of silence on this issue that many people are just waiting for the pandemic to be over, only to go back to their old ways and old diet.
A lot of us are afraid and mortally scared of the current situation but still have no repentance. It's hoped that good sense prevails and we retain the basic human qualities to respect and to live in harmony with flora and fauna. We are the late arrivals on this beautiful planet, and have a lifespan of only, at the most, hundred years. We have no right to damage it beyond repair. At present, the Earth is under repair. This beautiful planet is fixing itself. I hope that this repair will happen physically and mentally among human beings too, so that we have a better world to live in, and we don't behave like tyrants.
Now we know how it feels to be living with fear – for our families, for our near and dear ones and our friends. Animals and plants also have families and friends, better we realise it fast before it's too late. May God bless us with more sense.