Why We Need to Stop Succumbing to 'Pandemic Productivity' and Gaze at the Sky?
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on our mental state in different ways. Students are worried about their exams, teachers are trying to make online classes as interactive as possible, and employees are trying to keep their jobs. The stress is worsened by the constant reminder from family members, peers, YouTube motivational speakers, and especially WhatsApp forwards, to remain PRODUCTIVE. Productivity has become the latest buzz word. Posts on how Isaac Newton discovered gravity and calculus during the plague lockdown, Instagram influencers’ exercising, actors learning to cook have been flooding our WhatsApp since the beginning of the lockdown. Many of my classmates while having a casual conversation over the phone, complain about how unproductive their lockdown is, and about their flooding to-do list. In all honesty, even I have done that; cribbed about not being productive enough. Productivity is more like GDP, it measures the tangible aspects of life, the ones that are quantif...