For every musician, stand-up artist, an actor with a tour manager, business class seat and a reservation at a five-star restaurant, there are hundreds more flying solo on Spicejet & Air India every weekend and making do with a hotel room club sandwich. Most of us have probably felt some pang of desperation while fighting fatigue waiting for a delayed flight home from a barren airport. And struggling to manage rent and the lifestyle one is supposed to have. With COVID-19 in our world, this is expected to get worse.
The first step is to talk about the mental health. To accept that one can and do go through mental health issues. When Deepika Padukone spoke about her battle with depression, she did her part of normalizing the conversation around mental health. If this means bringing music, art down from the pedestal, be it. Normalising failure, just like any other career option –…