Understanding Human Psychology

  It's a picturesque view of nature around. Clear waters, birds chirping around, galloping dolphins, fresh breathable air, green grass, trees in full bloom. Yes we had it all. It was a brief period where we really got to see it all. The lockdown brought humans in cages and animals out of theirs. As we are now opening up again we realise the damage we are doing to nature day in and day out. How selfish can we get? We humans have already depleted much of Earth's resources.  Still if we see nature, we feel calm, composed and healed. For meditation, for inducing a deeply relaxed state, we often hear sounds of the sea waters, birds chirping, sound of the soft wind blowing. Nature continues to heal us. What are we doing to protect it? Truth is we are too busy in the world inside of us, to be really concerned about the world outside of us. We live in our heads, our life stories, our dreams. We then live in this physical world and so we do not pay attention to how nature actually is he

  Standing in our balcony, sipping our evening tea, my husband and I were discussing ‘how COVID 19 has changed the way people view the world around them. How COVID has affected our psychology, our way of living, to an extent that we are scared of moving out of the house, and feel that we need to take extra care of our children and elders.’ Only when we were absorbed in our thoughts, we spotted 2 stray dogs wandering about. My husband quickly asked me to get a piece of bread or some chapatis to give them. I rushed and hurriedly got the feed before they run away from the spot. Happily, we hurled pieces of the chapatis towards the dogs. To our surprise, they moved back, looked at us with fear, and ran away, as if to save their life from us. On this initial reaction, we felt that there could be people who hurt them in the past, by throwing things at them, and therefore they ran away. But we waited patiently for a long, long while. I even returned to my balcony after a few hours to check,