Pandemic has forced us to acknowledge the "Green Elephant in our Room" finally!
Our failure to acknowledge 'her 'presence and suffering' while we relentlessly pursued 'our' economic progress is the mother of all issues that plague us today.
High time we start moving towards 'living with this elephant' in our living rooms,_, literally!
In old pandemic days, a bunch of Neem leaves tucked in the doors and windows of our (Indian context) houses gave us the mental strength and emotional courage to tough it (pandemic) out many a times.
High time we surround ourselves with Green elephants so that we can ride out any future pandemics with the strength and support of this fella!
Not so Trivia: Wikipedia says,
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The expression "elephant in the room" (usually "the elephant in the room") or "the elephant in the living room"[1][2] is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable or is personally, socially, or politically embarrassing, controversial, inflammatory, or dangerous.[3][4]
It is based on the idea/thought that something as conspicuous as an elephant can appear to be overlooked in codified social interactions and that the sociology/psychology of repression also operates on the macro scale. Various languages across the world have words that describe similar concepts.
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Mark Twain wrote a detective story in 1882 with the tile 'The stolen white elephant'.
We the living, keep writing the pages of 'The stolen green elephant', a long running inter generational crime thriller.
High time we stop writing...and start planting our defence all around us!
Good one
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