Greetings, @kchitrah
Beautiful post, touching experience. One I have never had. I've never been fond of meditations. Not a plant cultivated in my culture.

Individually, efforts are made to keep peace and sanity.

Before our current crisis some practices from eastern cultures were becoming fashionable over here. People had time to spare and contemplation was possible.
With the crisis, not even our traditional catholic practices are observed (at lest not my the majority who pledge to that religion). People have grown increasingly skeptical, cynical and even heartless.
Life runs faster and inmediate urges and needs have ubstituted transcendental pursuits.
We lost track of beauty and pleasure. Everything around looks ugly and corrupted (either by time or men).
I hope one day soon we will wake up from this nightmare