I open up my eyes. The soothing morning-light touches my eyesight. It is the beginning of another isolation day of this COVID-19 period. Moreover, it is another weekend when I need to stay within my home.

I sit in my bed and do the breathing: ‘breathe in 1-2-3-4, hold 1-2-3, and breathe out 1-2-3-4-5’. I get fresh and go to the veranda. The green trees and white clouds in the blue sky refresh my eyes and the fresh air soothes my soul. The street in front of my house is almost empty. At most two or three passersby move by at a time. The harmony and music of nature thus remain undisturbed. I am in love with this serenity.

I go back to my room, do my own customized physical exercise, wipe out the sweats and take my breakfast. After completing my tasks I get time to do anything except going out. As I spend all my time at home, mostly in my room, each and everything shows up their micro versions to me these days. Even the blue and red granules in the white detergent look beautiful to me.

Unlike that in pre-isolation time, I do not stop only after tidying up the things at my home. I re-organize my things so that it looks a bit different and new. Nowadays I get the time to treat the dust hiding in unreachable corners of the things quite well!

When it comes about time management for food, lunchtime is my longest-eating time. I have chit-chats, discussions, and debates with my parents and siblings right after finishing lunch in the dining room.

I have a craving for reading. I remember the books I once started to read but could not complete. I pick them out from the trunk in my parents’ room. This is the perfect time to dive into them one by one. My heart leaps with joy in the thought of exploring each of the worlds hiding into them.

The moon creeps in as the sun goes to sleep. I pick up my acoustic guitar, of course convincing my electric one that I will play with him later. I open my diary where I write all my lyrics, chords and tabs. I tune the guitar and progress with composing the unfinished music I started long ago. The dinner goes in between. I keep diving in playing guitar until it comes time to sleep.

Just before sleeping, I have a slot of my time for meditation. I just love meditating! It makes my mind calm and ready for sleep. All the activities are done, an entire day ends and I start exploring my dream world while asleep. In the dream there is no room for isolation by the way!

So, this is my home! Sometimes it turns into a heavenly library, sometimes into a musical playground. Time passes well. I can say in the tone of a Disney movie song – “The isolation never bothered me anyway”!


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(This write-up along with the photos has previously been published in November 2020 in the online exhibition titled 'Ecography: Home and House in the time of Coronavirus', organized by Bengal Institute. I thought to share my photos and write-up with my Samu-blog friends too!)