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Making Pandemic As Your Source of Discoveries

Hi everyone and thanks God for this another journey. Thank God that after months of Covid 19 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 colleagues. 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 2o

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 Covid 19 Pandemic.

And living alone far away from anyone because of this Covid 19 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 things happened alone was a victory. Completeness and most satisfying moment that happened. In these, you will never be afraid, you are guarded with your faith and strength, you will always be prepared that no matter what will happen you will overcome such things. And it’s a wonderful feeling deep inside our heart.

This tear-jerking pandemic opened our wilderness. In our undisturbed consciousness, there are things we can do without imagining we could. Seeking positive things in negative situations is the best way to recover. In simple way, we are sometimes an instrument to other lives, without intentions and analyzing it. By giving them a piece of hope to go on in life. In obvious ways, we cannot lean or depend everything on our Government. Imagine in this midst of pandemic, the huge ABS-CBN was not allowed to renew their franchise and about 11,000 Filipinos lost their jobs. What will happen to our kababayan and their families? But as I said, Filipinos are resourceful, we just hope and pray that may our kababayan and all of us in this world will overcome this horrible trials. May they find their new jobs ASAP so that their burden will be lessened. May our leaders find ways in creating and making Philippines a country we could be more proud of and the place we could feel safe and cared.

God bless us all. God bless the Philippines. God bless the universe. Mata ne.

Kaya Pa, Kapit Lang

ni Karen Sanchez

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