The pandemic, as a universal experience, revives memories of collective loss, uncertainty, disorientation, and labor beyond one’s known capacity. The weight of restrictions and confinement in words like ‘lockdown,’ ‘containment zones’ and ‘curfews’ invariably births an internal dialogue within many of us. Limited space sparked independent thinking as most observed the failure of systems and societal institutions in the presence of these violent, unpredictable, contagious wave