The year has been nothing short of a thrilling rollercoaster ride because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s almost the end of the year, and everything that’s happened since it started has been completely unexpected, if the actual pandemic wasn’t unexpected enough! Last March, I was just hanging out with my friends at school on a normal day. Aside from preparing for our final exams, I was getting ready for my dream to come true: to graduate and finally go to college. That day, I checked my phone and saw an announcement from my city’s mayor that classes would be suspended the next day. I told my friends and we all decided to ignore it, that it might be fake and we should just continue studying. The school made an official announcement about the suspension, and just like any other case, I was happy to know that I wouldn’t have to stress for the next day and could rest instead. But one day of suspension turned into one month, and month turned into a complete cancellation of classes and the school year ending without graduation.
I decided to let the fact that I wasn’t able to properly graduate go, because there wasn’t much I could do about it anyway. I set aside those thoughts and started enjoying a very strange version of summer vacation, with the first couple of weeks filled to the brim with endless gaming and enjoying my free-time. But after a while, it started to get boring. Very, very boring. At the time, the country (and quite honestly, the whole world) was under lockdown, giving us no choice but to stay at home to prevent the spread of the virus. Being at home wasn’t all that bad, but day after day passed and I realized how many days I was really wasting. After having all of this time on your hands, you start to realize and tell yourself that man, this is one of the worst years of my life. Nobody could have predicted this or seen it coming, and it’s unimaginable how many lives have been lost and how many people have been affected by this. Nowadays, I’m more paranoid that all the people around me might have the virus, and I find it hard to trust those around me. And it’s really hit me that I won’t be able to see my friends or go to all the places I used to go until everything’s safe again. But when is that?
It’s really hard to tell when, but I have hope that we will overcome COVID-19 and recover from this pandemic soon enough. We’ll return to our lives, and although it might be different than before, we’ll still be able to live well. For now, we just need to wait and pray for the better future, do our part to prevent the spread, help others however we can, and continue our lives in the “new normal”.
Written by Admin G
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