Here’s why Nushrratt feels it’s okay to not be happy

The year 2020 has been anything but ordinary in more ways than one. And actor Nushrratt Bharuccha feels that it’s hard to imagine that so much has happened in just one year, which ‘has just cut us and made us bleed’ in so many different ways.

“I just feel like I’m going to wake up tomorrow morning to another bad news...,” she says, adding that an influx of not-sopositive news on social media is also making things difficult. “It’s just become a state of mind and social media is a reflection of that. So they’re basically telling what all is happening out there but the fact that this is actually happening is toxic in itself. I don’t think if we don’t know about it, we’ll be able to out run it,” she shares.

Asserting that it’s best to endure and adapt to the situation, Bharuccha, 30, says, “The word that I’ve discovered in a new way is ‘cope’. We already had mental health issues and with this it kind of erupted even more. And it’s difficult to suddenly just become happy. I don’t think by being happy you’ll be okay with all that’s happening.”

Moreover, she feels, there’s an added stress and struggle on a person, when asked to stay happy, amid this crisis. “Tomorrow if he isn’t happy, he’d feel something is wrong with him,” she opines.

Bharuccha believes the right approach would be to accept it and be normal about it. “It’s ok if you aren’t happy, let’s just get through this situation right now, at the end we all will be happy,” she signs off.