Before this year hit, I’d always dreamt of having stuck holidays and shutdowns around the people I love and care about, without a blink’s knowledge that it’d someday come out true, in such a harsh way. Like most of you all, I also happened to spend time with my family and it grew on me with happiness.
What I loved and learned the most is the fact that we are dependent on the luxuries of life a lot, on servants, drivers, cabs, and commute-to-doorstep deliveries. Our necessities were broadened, and it kind of encompassed more luxuries than ever, and a lockdown life taught me that I could be happier without chilling every weekend, and a good meal with family would suffice. I’ve found an incomparable joy in cooking new dishes for my family and the fact that what matters to them is my presence in the house, no matter even if I am stuck at work all day for 15 hours of the day.
- I’ve learned habits are escapable, and meeting people every day or regularly is not what keeps your bonds intact. It is what you are for the person and distance does grow the heart fonder but doesn’t widen the distance.
- I’ve learned to be grateful. For food, family, friends, roof, and essentials. I’ve learned to find positivity in the least that I could have(which I felt I have everything in. abundance over these months)
- I’ve felt happiness that has been cosmic in working harder, living life simply with home-cooked food, and cultivating many more things I’ve always wanted to try learning and always blamed it on no-time life. It feels pointless now to even mention that we always have the time; we only need to find a way out.
Lastly, I’ve realized I am much more than my work; I. I am what my father made me- giving and empathetic. I am what my mother made me- responsible and adequately ambitious, and I am what my education has made me- judicious in my thoughts.
Culminating, what 2020 has made me be is- indebting, gratifying, and positive for better things in life, nevertheless.