I was in the college taking an exam of Urdu. I came home, suddenly I heard about the lockdown due to the COVID. After hearing the news about the severe situation not only in Pakistan, but in the whole world, that this virus has killed a lot of people so all the institutions will remain closed for about two weeks, I was feeling miserable on the demise of thousands of people.
As it was the end of the intermediate and I was burdenized of studies, the sleepless nights, a lot of things to memorize, a lot of course was on pending and it must be covered before exams, amidst of all this there was no limit of my happiness also. Then lockdown span started extending from week to month and from month to months. I just put my books aside and my full concentration was on the news about COVID and tweets of Shafqat Mehmood that what he was going to announce about the papers. Firstly, the exam got postponed then got canceled. I took admission in a university without any strenuous effort, hmmm… sounds good.
As it has been several months being at home, there was no outgoing, no out eatings, no gatherings, I was fed up with this quarantine. Extra involvement of siblings in one another’s work leads to agitated behavior, wrangling, mood swings, etc. and I was utterly missing the days prior to lockdown, parties, gatherings, hangouts with friends, and praying for this lockdown to be ended.
Because on the other hand, taking online classes was not so easy. There were a lot of technical issues, sometimes my internet got disconnected, and I couldn’t submit my quiz on time and I have to plead every teacher to allow me some extra minutes so that I could submit my quiz. Taking online classes was not a good experience, at least not for me because I have lost a lot of marks and haven’t learned much. That was the end of my happiness being staying at home as I have a lot of plans to enjoy university life. I faced a lot of problems while studying online.
But the good aspect is that this pandemic provided me enough time to work on my sketching skills and read many effective books. But I feel it is very less as compared to what I can do. I feel very sad for myself to sleep excessively. When I heard my friends and cousins saying that they have learned cooking, stitching, baking, knitting. But I couldn’t help myself not to feel regret in wasting time.
Now, vaccination has come to cure the virus. But people are not taking it seriously. That is not getting vaccinated. I wish all people must be vaccinated. So, we can be able to live our life again as we used to live before the pandemic.
Iqra Shamshad
Reg. No. 200101018
Aero 19-B