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How I’m Hanging on During This Nightmare Pandemic
It has been what feels like an eternity since this Covid pandemic started. Not everyone is hit equally by this pandemic. Because of several factors such as money, population density in the neighbourhood, the willingness of the citizens to cooperate and do their part to avoid the spread, etc. some people are facing a nightmare compared to others.
Even for deciding to meet our loved ones we need to factor in the chance of exposure to them and also to ourselves. For international travel, the decision is not even ours and depends on the policies of different countries. If you live away from your family, I know the helplessness that one can face in these difficult times. The plight of having to see your loved ones grasp for oxygen and not enough being available…
I’ve myself gone through the loss of my loved ones and the misery of not even being there for the final goodbye…
It is surreal that how does a person become a memory, a message, a photograph in the blink of an eye…
Nothing I can say or write to even begin to describe the vortex of feelings and the void that an individual feels in this situation. It can be as easy as just breathing into anxiety, depression and sadness. Seeing the light even in pitch darkness can seem impossible.
