What is in the name?

The feeling that we know everything, has a catch that we don’t know what is the meaning of everything?

A little shake up in the pyramid of food chain, rattled the world order of the powerful. The tiniest of all, a biomolecule, a connecting link between the living and non-living is now decoding depth of relation between dead and living. Name it, after whatever suitable we feel, a city, a river, a place, a season or just the way it looks, doesn’t matter because origin may be distant to us but now it lives among us or in us. Yes, it is true we can’t predict things and be prepared all the time because we have already messed up our priorities. When the survival is the utmost priority then being the fittest should be the goal. But being so advanced species, which have ever walked on this planet we hardly come under the criteria of the fittest. Our priority was food before, but now it is to how to outlive our own species who we marked as different than us.

Still we as human ask

What is a virus?

Ask a naturalist- One of the random creations of nature, essential to maintain balance between living and non-living.

An Environmentalist- A connecting link between dead and living.

An Evolutionist -An early engineer of nature, which helped in central dogma of life.

A physicist- A system of differentially charged molecules where surface charge and mass of molecule decide fate of the system.

A molecular biologist- A protein shell around a nucleic acid core, which may be DNA or RNA.

A chemist- A natural assembly of biomolecules, creating a stable functional structure.

A virologist- A deadly disease which can be fatal if your immune system is weak.

A common human-?

A disease which locks me alive in a coffin before I die,

A guilt - keeps my loved ones away till I sleep in white bed,

A social stigma- leads people to change their path where I walk,

An emotion- better unseen and untouched when I die wrapped in plastic which can make other sick.  

- rituraj