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Dear me,
I will not ask you how you are for I already know that you live in a dystopian world where the interactions with fellow human beings are limited to the virtual world, bits of paper have more currency than love and the air is thick with smoke and disease.
I write to you from a future that is different and better. You might not realise it now, but you inhabit the cusp to the new world, brought on by what we refer to in 2030 as the ‘Covid Scare’. A disease that locked us away in our homes unlocked our hearts and minds. We realised that all the money in the world couldn’t save us, unless we took the time to invest in each human being rather than share markets. It is because of this experience that the ideal world as it is now, in the year 2030 is one of respect, tolerance and equality.
In my world the difference between black, brown, yellow and white is restricted to the paint palette alone and we celebrate the myriad colours we live among. We love who our hearts choose regardless of the gender and everyone celebrates that love.
Environment is the new religion as it was even many years before your present time. We know that to live in harmony with mother nature is the only prayer we need. Communal conflict has been replaced by hope and love and people find spirituality inside their own beings and not in temples, churches and mosques.
Remember how you were told to pick history over science because you were a girl? Well, the cure for COVID-19 was developed by a young woman in Delhi. Nobody in this time would even dream of making a distinction based on gender.
We aren’t affluent in monetary terms. Everyone has as much as they need, no more and no less. Life is simple. We grow our own food and share what we grow with our neighbours. We are rich in so many other ways. We are rich in the relationships we have with those around us. We are rich with what we imbibe from art and music and books.
Before it got better, however, it got worse. The police, the so-called ‘protectors’ of the people, murdered their fellow humans in cold blood, just because they were of a different race or culture. The criminal was considered the victim, the victim the criminal. Atrocious crimes against both humans and animals were applauded rather than condemned, and peaceful protestors were arrested instead of real criminals.
You might think that ten years is too little a time to change a bloodthirsty hell into the Shangri-La I claim to live in, but It did happen, though, it wasn’t easy.
Years of death, destruction, and disease caused us humans to finally see the light. People started to speak up. Men, women, children of every religion, took to the streets to protest against those in power, and although these protests were often crushed by the authorities, in the end the people’s will prevailed. Authoritarian governments across the world fell.
What once divided us brought us together, as Audre Lorde said, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognise, accept, and celebrate those differences”.
We’ve learnt to be happy with less, and instead of wasting our time trying to impress people on social media, we have ushered in an age of science, literature, art, and music, but despite the excellence around us, parents no longer pressure their children into being A+ students or prodigies
I am not a world-famous celebrity or the CEO of some big company. I’m just a forensic scientist. I walk to work everyday, and use the same laptop you use now. It might not seem like an ideal world to you, but trust me, it will. I should know, I’m you.
Love,
Nayantara.
De Omnibus Dubitandum 
Very well expressed and each word so true. Covid has in some ways given us a new lease of life and we are learning to sift out the essentials to live a peaceful , joyful and contented life.
Enjoyed reading each word!
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