Estremera: Quarantine musings

Estremera: Quarantine musings

IT was fun in the shadows after years of being forced to be in the limelight. But comes the realization that when you choose the shadows, others will claim the light you deserve. So I’m moving out and just claiming what’s mine.

Especially in this age when it’s all about stepping up the plate and saying, I am, that’s just how you can show the world your worth. Many good people have chosen to work in the shadows for so long, unacknowledged, uncomfortable with the limelight. This allowed the less worthy to claim the centerstage. They become the experts they claim to be, when there is no solid foundation to speak of. Just go out there and tweet. Just post and say, I am.

After enjoying the shadows, we all have to emerge. As a bear emerges from hibernation.

It’s interesting how our biology lessons only told us that bears hibernate during winter because ... it’s cold, there’s no food to hunt, it makes sense to just sleep the three months away.

It never led us to appreciate the earth on which the bear sleeps on for three months. It’s more than just sleeping the winter away. It’s resting one’s belly to the earth, imbibing its energies, recharging.

Even earthing has become a thing for new age followers, when nature has designed it to be a daily thing for all. Like, we have feet, and that pair of feet is designed to step on the earth the moment we wake up and go out. But no, we cover it with socks and rubber and leather and disconnect.

I’ve been earthing since more than a decade ago, after discovering that it soothes the nerves and makes body aches go away. At first, it was just for the body aches as my past life, being a full-time journalist, is pocked full of body aches. But after pondering on how powerful it is to shoo away aches, I came to the conclusion that it must have powers that are subtle, unseen. And so unshod I go, connecting, earthing, grounding.

Let’s remember an almost ignored practice at home of grounding our appliances. Many never even asked why there is the need to do that and that screw where the wire is supposed to be connected to your backup electric stove is now ignored. The most that the few who still care to know could offer is that it prevents you from being electrocuted. But it does more than that.

Electrical grounding opens a route for current to directly flow to the ground in case there is a fault in the wiring system. So yes, it is true that electrical grounding prevents you from being electrocuted. But more than that, remember your school days when electrons were part of your dreaded reality and recall that wiring systems at home is made up of electrons flowing through circuit wires and that electricity has that nature to rush groundward when released from insulation. So, aside from preventing electrocution, grounding your appliances provides that direct route to the ground and prevent power surges. Yups. Long before AVR’s, there was just that copper wire stuck to the ground. You were never told that, weren’t you?

How many more realities of nature have we ignored? Too many. We have even forgotten that our body is designed to heal itself, and so we pop the pill because it’s quicker that way. (saestremera@gmail.com)

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