Trying To Cope Up With Grief And Loss During Festive Season? Mallika Dua Has A Message For You

The pandemic has caused unrepairable damage to the lives of most of us. Almost everyone has lost a closed one. It gets tougher to deal with the grief and pain especially during the festive season as it is the time when friends and family get together to make memories. This year a lot of people are dealing with a sense of loneliness.?

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In 2020, Mallika Dua had posted a happy smiling photo with her mother on the occasion of Diwali.?In the caption, she wrote, "Happy Diwali! ??? Papaji was still in his nightsuit so he was disqualified from this picture."

In June 2021, she lost her mother Padmavati aka Chinna Dua to COVID-19. Diwali won't be the same for her but she wants herself and others who lost a loved one recently to "keep that little tiny bulb on".?

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?She posted a video on Instagram recently to say, "For all of us who have lost people this year, all of us who have lost the light of their lives this year, Diwali is not something we are looking forward to as such… This year, it has been painful and triggering for a lot of people".

"I don’t think God targeted us… It was a wave and it took everybody. And in that also there is varying degree, for better or for worse."

Adding that Diwali won't be the same for her, Mallika Dua revealed her plans for the festival. She said she would go for a therapy session and would also go for boxing training. She would meet her family and speak to her nephew and with that, she won't take any pressure to dress up or celebrate.

"I will just make it busy so that it doesn’t hit me in the face that it’s Diwali and it’s not the brightest one. I am sure there are many of us who are struggling with this dilemma that ‘Should we jump back to life and participate in everything’, or ‘How do we shake off any sort of trauma we have?"?

She says, "We have to make sure to find that little light bulb inside us, and be that for other people. That’s because you will always find someone who is facing a situation worse than yours".?

Watch the video below.

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