Making Pandemic As Your Source of Dicoveries
Hi everyone and thanks God for this another journey. Thank God that after months of Covid19 Pandemic hit us, we are still safe, without illness, having our loved ones safe, our jobs, money to spend in our daily necessities, to pay the bills and time to read this article. Bless us all! Some people suffered, past away, and still fighting for Covid 19 at the hospitals and we are honored to have these dedicated frontliners who are taking care of our "kababayans", our relatives, friends and collegues. A salute to everyone with a kind-hearted and willing to sacrifice and risk themselves and their families to the call of duty. God bless you all. When we heard "Pandemic", we always thought its negative effects. And yes it is, but in other way around, some beautiful things happened, too. Discovering our true self-identity, you discover your siblings and your parents characteristics. And the most important thing that we discovered was how to be strong in facing our own weaknesses, our own fears, how to earn during this very difficult and limited type of living with a limited sources
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that we have in our society. Limited because most of the stores were closed, people ages 21 and below and 60 years old above are not required to go out unless it’s emergency, necessary or too important but you have to present some documents such as Covid 19 rapid test or swab test result, a police clearance, health certificate from Municipal Health Office, etc. And when everything is clear, that’s the only time they allowed you to travel. Sometimes rules and protocols are inconsistent depending on the situation in various places or provinces and their Governors to decide about it. It is sad to see people dying, people are hurting, hungry, fighting for everyone's right. But who are we to take all these responsibilities when we, our families are one of those who are suffering? It is hard and painful. In these, you will realized that only you and your relation to God that matter. Appreciate things that we should be thankful for. Pray for His guidance, His gracious mercy for keeping us safe and our families. Being alone during lockdown is a time for reminiscing the things we did in the past. With this, we discover our mistakes and strength. During lockdown families are bonded together. Having time to eat, watch tv or movies together, talking about the news and this pandemic, having coffee and snacks, cooking and washing clothes, cars, etc. with kids or hubby. That before this pandemic happened everyone was so busy in their own fields. Parents were busy and some of them working far away from home like seafarers,
businessmen, and OFWs. Children are busy at school, friends, gadgets and some of them are addicted to computer games like Mobile Legends which their parent even knew about but had nothing to do because they are busy too and leave everything with their maids or "kasambahay". When people closed their home, we did not expect that at this moment our beloved earth is healing, too. No poisonous air from cars and factories were seen. Garbages in surroundings lessen. The old beauty of heaven was seen. Amazingly beautiful places appear when polluted air disappeared. And as we noticed, people are so resourceful. Some of them used their talents or even discovered their hidden talents to make a living. They used these to earn while at home. Online selling was all over the country or even abroad using this tagline "pm is the key". These shows that people are fighting and never give up. They take whatever chances and opportunities they have. People are eventually independent by their own perspectives in life. People looked back and became connected to nature especially those who are living in rural places or in provinces. They adopted indoor plants, vegetables to sell, consume or even bartering those with canned goods, laundry and bath soaps, coffee, milk and others that money can buy. And also, it helps us to get rid of anxiety and mental distresses brought about this Covid19 Pandemic. And living alone far away from anyone because of this Covid19 was the most tragic thing happened to anyone else. You are dying without anyone at your side. You are fighting alone and just find your own strength within yourself and dedicate this to someone whom you most preferred to. Living alone is the loneliest thing we could experience. But when you overcome all these negative
JULY - AUGUST 2020
