By-Sherya Kalra
As the lyrics of a famous song go by “One day
you’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will
remember”, now Covid 19 has made sure that we
remember this drastic time until our last breath.
The first time it hit me was four days after my 10th
boards, when our country went into a complete
lockdown. If I were to be honest, me being a
typical teenager had a dozen of plans which
obviously flopped, so it was a bummer for me.
The first and the most excruciating challenge I
faced was struggling with my mental health.
Being stuck at home had me getting irritated,
annoyed, sad and frustrated at the smallest of
issues, so keeping my behavior in check became a
big task. To cope up with that and my messed up
thoughts, I decided to put my mind to more
productive things like music, gardening, regular
workout and thankfully that worked like a magic
charm.
Challenge I faced was the feeling of helplessness,
that what can I do to help and relive people by
sitting at my home, as it was too depressing to
watch the news whole day about people dying
outside when you’re safely sitting in the comforts
of your home. I decided to offer the littlest help
that I could, by spreading awareness and taking
care of the people who were in touch with me, like
houseworkers. Also regularly donating money and
resources to the needed made the situation a little
better.
The third challenge was keeping up with the
studies while some of my family members were
coming out as covid positive. It was a very heart-
wrenching and disturbing period. Honestly, I still
don’t know I steered through that, maybe the only
way to get through that is, not giving up, helping
and understanding each other, and standing
together no matter what may come.
Okay I know it has been a super sad and
depressed period for all of us, but remember to
never lose hope, because the tables do gotta turn
someday and a bright day do gotta emerge out of
the dark night, so just hang in there for a little
longer!
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