How Corona affected my life specifically and generally?

[Ahmed Toheed]

Hey guys,

Ahmed Toheed here, and I will be trying to cover my autobiography for the past year. How it went, what issue I faced and how I tackled them and how it is going to affect my future life. For easiness, I divided the journey in five paragraphs answering each question in each para respectively so that you will have clear idea about my journey.

What were some of the mental, emotional, or physical challenges that you faced during life in lock-down? How did you overcome them?
The COVID-19 pandemic started in 2019 when I was studying 1 semester in MSE and was trying to solve issues regarding my studies as it was very difficult for me to cope up with semester system from yearly system. In this hustle, the pandemic breaks and I came in harder situation to handle my studies. Adding into this mental pressure, my physical life also gets affected because I was very much into physical games in my secondary studies but in university, I was not giving enough time. Moreover, these physical and mental challenges seems so much as I was also emotionally affected as I was not having a social circle, in short no friends with which I could interact, and I felt that too much in this pandemic era. With passage of time, By the Grace of Allah, I overcome the mental and emotional pressure as I get some useful advice from my favorite people and it really helped me a lot. Though I am still struggling to mange my physical routine, but I am unable to come on my previous routine.

How have you grown as an individual through your journey?
Well, I felt like I had grown in both terms, negative and positive, depending upon the aspect of which we are taking. For instance, let’s take two aspects of my life, first the extrovert side, I was looking forward to open myself in university culture so that I could get more know how on how to interact with people but unfortunately the growth on the graph have gone down but at the same time on my introvert side, I had a positive outcome as I was also waiting to give time to myself for thinking about myself, my future or more deeply why we even exist ? and stuff. Fortunately, I was able to find answers for these questions and I very glad for that it had positive outcome in this respect.

What has been one remarkable incident that you would like to narrate?
One of incidents I really wanted to narrate is the day when I decided to complete the YouTube crash course on Adobe After effects. The reason I did it was I just wasting time for past few days and I was regretting for doing that, so I decided to do something fruitful. I started the course in early morning and was able to finish it late in the night.

What are your hopes or fears for the future?
Well, as far as my future is concern, I am not kind of hopeful that I would be investing my life specifically in engineering rather I would be doing some other stuff related with it and that’s why I am kind of hopeful that I will be able to do something, this is the hope but talking about the fear, I many times think of how these online education is going to affect the rest of my life and the people related with either it is in personal terms or in practical aspect.

How do you think our economy and educational systems need to be revived, post-pandemic?
In my personal view, before resolving the post pandemic problems of our education system we must rethink about the pre pandemic issues our system is facing and some of to highlight is 1. The curriculum,2. Selection of teachers and 3. issues in eligibility criteria and Merit and much more to say.

Sincerely,
Ahmed Toheed
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