What is your relationship with you family like?
Your family by birth. Your family for life. How do you relate to your family, when every other relationship that you form throughout your life depends on your foundational relationship with you family. People who you live day in and day out with. These are the people you eat with, sleep around the same time with, grow up with, go out with. These are people who have helped you, while you have helped them. Supported and loved unconditionally and conditionally.
Covid either brought families together or tore them apart to the extent that they don’t want to see each other’s face. Covid leveled up everything. It opened wounds, healed, opened hearts. It brought fears, anxiety, depression, an unnerving calm. One either got too close to their family or was stuck so far away in isolation that the distances made them closer. People understood people. We started valuing lives. We started respecting each other. We started looking at each other as humans.
2020 to 2021 has really brought a tremendous change in the family dynamics. I know I am better off this side. Healed with them, and now without them still with them, connected every day. Where do you stand with you family now? Where were pre pandemic? What has changed? How do you feel about this? Would you ever go back?
Published by Pranjulaa
Poet’s bio:
An Msc in Creative Industries (Management) from Birkbeck, University of London, I wrote my first poem when I was only 13 years old, and currently I hold a collection of about 800 poems. I was enrolled into Poetry College, Batch of 2019 in Mumbai, and have Msc in Creative Industries Management, from University of London (2015). My poems have been published on Poetry Nature, Poets India, Image Curve and Nocturne Journal, amongst others. An author to “Short and Sweet Story”, published at Storytel as an audio book, I am now working on my first independent book of poems. Recently, I won a cash prize for a poetry competition based on a painting organized by Arts Illustrated and NDTV Mojarto. You can read some glimpses of my poems on @poetrybypranjulaa
I continue to work as an independent art consultant and researcher while managing my venture, Pranjal Arts which has a private collection of around 200 Indian art paintings.
List of awards:
•Awarded Scholarship for Creative writing by Mayo College Girl’s School, Ajmer(2011)
•Represented Birkbeck, University of London at British Chamber of Commerce Conference in London, UK as Potential Leaders of the future. (2015)
•Venue Ambassador, Birkbeck, University of London (2015)
•Invited for the “Thrive” Conference on Arts fundraising in Bath, UK (2015)
•Awarded on International Women’s day for showing international leadership in the field of Indian dance and poetry (2016 )
•Awarded the Lions Pride Award during the international service week.(2018)
•Selected for World Governance Expedition to Russia, organized by Vision India Foundation (2019)
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