The deadly coronavirus disease has spread all

over the world and soon became a pandemic.

It’s been a year since the pandemic started.
The world has completely changed, as well as
the way we live. What was once normal
became abnormal and what is not normal
became our normal.

My whole pandemic experience is spent in

our home’s comforts because of the
government’s implemented lockdown to
prevent the further rising of cases. The
lockdown was my first such experience
wherein I had to stay at home for a long
period. At first, I felt the feeling of euphoria
since I wouldn’t go to school and just spend
time at home. Weeks and months passed by
the reality started to sink in, the thoughts of
mine of being able to go out and hope that
the situation to become normal once again.

The novelty of being at home doing things

every day, again and again, makes me
unhappy and bored at the same time. To
begin my day with I wake up in the morning
fixed my bed and get ready to take a bath
then I would help my mother to cook
breakfast for the family. After that I would do
the dishes then I would start cleaning our
house. Subsequently, I would help my
grandma or my mother to prepare lunch and
again I would do the dishes. This routine of
mine is being repeated like a winding toy or
simply a clock that the actions are all the
same and repeated.
However, over time, I found ways to cope up
with sadness and boredom, such as spending
time with my family and discovering things at
home. I realized that the pandemic gives me
more time to try or discover new things such
as being a kpop fan or listening to kpop or
simply the things I loved or hobbies that had
been swamped by school works. I started
playing guitar and ukulele once again, and
somehow, I felt delighted and free.
Furthermore, the pandemic also helps me to
be mentally and emotionally matured to
things, in addition, the pandemic taught me
to love myself and my insecurities also to be a
better version of myself, so I started to eat a
lot, like every meal I eat as much as I can and
I exercise at the same time to achieve a
normal weight and a healthy body, that I
can’t do in the past years because of school
works and stress. Above all, for me, the
pandemic is not that bad at all, because it
gives me more time to spend with my family
and creating memorable things and
experiences that we will all cherished forever.

I clearly understand how difficult our lives

must be in the middle of the pandemic, the
pandemic may have brought us negative
effects or impact but let us all look up to its
positive side, which is we learn to love
ourselves; we spend more time with our
family and we became more mindful about
our every movement. In addition, the
pandemic also helps us to try and discover
new things or simply going back to the things
we loved, that we can’t do in the past. Also,
there are times were challenging, we’ve faced
so many problems and hardships but we still
found happiness and the way out of any
problem that we’ve faced. The pandemic
made us realized that we are strong and
mature enough, no matter how hard our
situation may be, there is always a solution or
way out of it. There is a quote from Walt
Disney “After the rain, the sun will reappear.
There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be
here’’. No matter how hard our problems will
be, there is always a solution to every of that
and happiness will come. The pandemic
taught us so many things and life lessons that
someday we will all use and remember.