@jojoroxasb 28 August 2020 more from that month

Wake Me Up When This Pandemic Ends

I use to celebrate Christmases alone. The one last year was actually not that different. I just hang out with neighbors sharing yuletide cheers and that's it. After a couple of hours past midnight, I just sleep till morning and plan again for the day ahead. Wish I could have celebrated it a little bit different. Not knowing what 2020 will bring us. I could have just enjoyed it so much more. Coz this year's Christmas will be so much different, so not normal. As what they say, the new normal. It was already late January when news began to spread, the onset of the Corona Virus pandemic. What used to be just a little bit of news last November turned out to be the biggest for this year, this new decade perhaps. I was already recovering from my illness that month and was planning to find a job for the next two months. But all hell broke out. The rest of the year would then follow what hell was all about. The quarantines took effect, limiting people's access to their essentials. Physical work became scarce. Unemployment shoot up. And we find ourselves in deep financial trouble. The fear of what lies ahead worried us all. Never knowing when the nightmare will end. There were so many plans for this year. So many dreams left unfulfilled. Celebrations was somehow unethical. And the system we are used to became so illogical. We needed change. We needed to adjust. Desperate times always call for desperate measures. No time to relax. You have to keep moving, just to satisfy your daily needs. It could have been different, if there was swift action to prevent the virus from spreading. But we are all in this right now. We now need to fight it. And the daily struggle that we are experiencing, will be a lesson well learned the next couple of years. I just hope that everything goes back to normal. But it might take longer than what we have expected. It's a nightmare that we are all in. And all we can do is just wait until we wake up and rise again for a beautiful future. Stay safe everyone.