The Words with Wings

 According to the Cambridge dictionary, a deadline is "a time or day by which something must be done". We often tend to overlook the word, "by" because for most of us a deadline means to get done with the submission just a minute before the specified time. But it looks like I am not that person. I'm someone who panics if I even approach the last day of the deadline. My college friends usually say, "Grow up! You are not in school anymore." And sometimes, I too think that maybe I should but that satisfaction of submitting an assignment way before the deadlines, gives you a sense of victory and automatically brings a smile on your face. But that is not why I'm writing this blog today. So, what is the point? While we are amidst a deadly pandemic, our colleges want us to meet deadlines which is the worst possible thing they can do because keeping ourselves sane should be our topmost priority right now, but instead we are busy worrying about submitting a...

 This is a common abbreviation among millennials which stands for 'Fear Of Missing Out. It has been in use for a very long time but lately, it feels like everyone is actually getting a hang of it. Just recently, I came across a post on Instagram which read as follows: "At this time of a pandemic  I don't know what's worse this sense of being lost or the feeling that you are not doing enough." And this got me thinking about how our lives have changed and how we have evolved in this time of difficulty. At this point, there are two types of lifestyles which people have resorted to: There are the ones who have enjoyed all this time like they'll never get to experience this again(which is probably true) and for someone like me, this requires a lot of guts because I'm the kind of person who feels guilty on waking up after 10 am, even if I slept at 3 am. Most of these people have a sense of how hectic and chaotic our lives would get once the doctors come up with ...