As lockdowns ease in Toronto, two lessons from the pandemic: working from home actually works, especially for working mothers, and the crisis was nature correcting human imbalance, not divine intervention. A spring walk through the city captures why we should remember this.
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Hi everybody, how are you doing? This is Saturday in Toronto, a very sunny, beautiful spring day, and the temperature is around 19, 18, 19 degrees. So everybody is out. Not everybody, I would say some parts of the lockdown is done, is relaxed, and so some people are out on the streets. They're biking, you know, you can see, and we are— they're biking and walking and jogging. Hi everybody, how are you doing? And it's it's pretty pleasant sight to see everybody back, you know, doing some just just roaming about. Some people are not even wearing jackets, though the temperature is not not that it's not all that hot as yet. But some people not even wearing jackets, so they're jogging over there. You can see people jogging and running and cycling. It's generally a happy day because we are kind of coming back to realization that yes, we can step out, we can step out, and we are also a part of the nature. Please, nature, please forgive us and take us back. And so we're just hoping the coronavirus, uh, the surge doesn't come back again. So as you know that I have posted a video saying that what are the 3 things that we have learned from coronavirus, this, this pandemic. I'd like to add 2 more things that we've learned from this. Number one is we can stay at home and work from home. This is a concept I have written about Way back, about four or five years back, I'd written in my LinkedIn profile. You might want to visit my LinkedIn profile and you'll find it there. I'd written about how we can work from home. Like all the if you want to go to work off oh look at that! Look at those bikes. If you want to go to work, that's fine. Otherwise, working moms like us, we can stay. stay at home and we can work from home. In my days, we didn't have this opportunity, which is why I had to leave my job twice because I had to, um, take care of my son. And now these days, you know, if you work from home, you don't have to pay for the, um, care, like for any daycare. You don't have to worry about not being able to balance your work and home life. You can be at home, do all the stuff that you want to do, at the same time work, because women are quite capable of multitasking. So even men, for the matter, if there is some, uh, something you can work from home, you can do it, right? So that is what my, uh, I, I think we've learned, that we can all work from home. So the employers will also gain a lot from this, you know, because you have, you have very little overhead expenses. And then there will be, there won't be any times like for sickness or for some reason the employee, the workers don't turn out, you know, you are in a jeopardy. So that will be a lot taken care of. And one thing I, you know, I've come out to Toronto after a long time and I've never ever appreciated the architecture, the structures and buildings in Toronto. I always thought they were like matchboxes. But today I came out in Toronto, I think after 6 months, In summer, I'm really appreciating these structures, these everything. I'm appreciating everything about Toronto, Canada, even after 11 years because I'm suddenly finding everything so beautiful all over again. It's it's awesome because yeah, look at the road we are traveling through. Look at that statue over there. That's a Canadian National Exhibition 1927-1989. So I think that's, uh, that's some kind of, uh— oh, that's the exhibition. This is the exhibition station actually. So lots of exhibition takes place inside that, uh, memorial, that gate. It's beautiful. And that's the lake, Lake Ontario. You can see Lake Ontario just behind the bushes, behind the trees. And it's a beautiful lakeside drive we're having. And And the second thing, another thing I had missed out in my— that video is that, um, um, however much, whoever, whichever gods we worship, none of them came to our rescue. You notice that no gods came to our rescue. Humans were just annihilated one by one, like indiscriminately, whether, whether you are rich or poor, whichever religion Whether you are like whatever, whatever religion you follow, not Allah, not God, not Jesus, not Krishna. Nobody saved us. Nobody saved us. So going to temple and being religious and worshipping God is do you think it's a little? I think it's a little futile now. I think there is only one God who's taking care of a bigger, much bigger thing than your personal small, small you know everyday. Needs. He's taking off the natural imbalance that humans have created, and he's just you know doing it's a nature's way of getting the balance back. There were too many people and too many evil people, and evil people were all destroying the planet. I'm not saying only evil people died; all good people died. So when you do things, when you have to take a decision, all a lot of people suffer or innocent people suffer. So anyway, watch the beautiful lakeside that we are going through. Wow, that's so beautiful! Beautiful. I just don't want to speak and spoil your, uh, drive that you're— video that you're watching. Look at the lake, can you see it? This is Slickham, Ontario. That's my husband driving with a mask. That says, it says, stay alert, stay safe. It's a nice drive, it's a wonderful drive. And for the first time, I'm appreciating this entire country. This has been such a, like, such a— this is a— this, I think, the great realization period. It's the period will maybe remembered in history as the great realization Period, and I hope every human being will remember this when when this is over. When they are allowed to get back, they should remember what lessons we've been learned throughout history. We should not take anything for granted. We should not take anything for granted. All those restaurants, all those malls, all those movies that we went to, don't take them for granted. Remember, they can be you can be they can be snatched from you anytime. Okay, so hope you had a good view of Toronto on this spring lovely sunny day, spring day. Oh oh oh! Okay, I should not miss this out. Look at this. That's Harley Davidson, Harley Davidson. Look at that. Look at that. Don't miss it out. Don't miss out. That is so good. Oh my God, that those are out now. You see that? I'd love to be one. Actually, I was on one. I have ridden a Harley-Davidson. Sorry, I couldn't didn't take a video then, but I have ridden one. A friend of mine called Arthur, he took me for a ride on a Harley-Davidson. I wished I had a belt on which tied— which could tie me to him because I was almost flying away at 130 kilometers per hour speed. I was flying away almost. So I wished I had a belt which I could tie it around him or with the vehicle so that I would stay in the vehicle. It's so fast, it goes so fast. So I'll wrap it up, wrap up the video now. Hope you had a good view and had a good time, uh, nice watching my videos. Keep watching and keep commenting. Bye-bye and have a good, good weekend.
