On a
chilly Saturday morning like this, all I can think of is the past year and all
that we went through collectively as the Covid sparks blew into full flames
taking so much from us and denying us of the basic pleasures of life, the
lockdowns, change in the way we do things as a society, what started as a mere
rumor from Wuhan turned out to be an awfully bad dream that we are yet to wake
up from.
My reflection
is not all about the bad things, but it takes conditions or situations like
this to help one give true meaning to life, the opportunity to still be here
and keep fighting, hoping, appreciating and being thankful is why I am writing
this because some of us, our friends, classmates, professors, and family
members came down with this disease and while some fought extremely hard and
came through, others fought and fought till the very end, but they are no
longer with us. Sometimes it takes experiencing sadness to appreciate happiness,
darkness to appreciate light, rain to appreciate the sun, the storm to
appreciate the calm and death to appreciate life.
So today all I want to say is that I am grateful
and happy to still be here.
