This pandemic has been the most challenging and difficult period of my life. In the second wave of covid I contracted the virus. This phase changed me as a person completely, before having covid and when the lockdown started I became a very negative person because staying in homes and not being able to do anything which used to be once normal put me into a depressing phase , I stopped looking at life and how grateful I am for all that I have.
This all I realized when I contracted COVID and had to face many difficulties during that time , during the second wave of the pandemic I also became a victim of corona virus , at first I didn’t really know what was happening and took it as joke but when I experienced it my whole perspective changed of how brutal this virus is , becoming a covid victim really taught me how beautiful life is , I had to be isolated completely in one room where I had no company of even my family , the days and nights of being totally alone and the fear of dying were the things that were the most challenging for me, I would always look back on the times before covid and it would made me realize as to how lucky I was .
Due to covid the changes in health really bothered me , the lowering of oxygen levels , having no taste or smell this all made me frustrated and I started losing hope , I had a doubt of not surviving and those 2 weeks became a life changing experience for me . Looking at my parents I knew that I had to get better for them , I knew I had to have the positive approach in order to fight this battle against covid .
To say that recovering from the disease breathed a new life in me would be an understatement. I was transformed into a completely different person. I was no longer the person who used to criticize each and every aspect of life. I started finding joy in even the simplest of things. I also had the appalling realization as to how we as a nation have taken this pandemic lightly, how we are unaware of the grave consequences of this virus and even if we are aware, we are still taking this whole ordeal as a joke. A joke until it becomes one of us who suffer, a joke until our close friends or family has to surrender their lives to the virus. It is only then we realize the daunting nature of the virus.
I pray that we enlighten ourselves regarding this issue and take necessary precautions to protect ourselves and our loved ones lest we have to lose our lives- something which can be easily prevented if we do not throw caution to the wind and be serious for once in our life.
Alizay Muqqadus
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MAT 12 B