This is personal, just me reflecting on the past few days. Don’t mind me!

We were forced into lockdown on the 21st of March 2020. After which, I started going out on rides and quick coffee dates with my friends *following all guideline* since August.

Now,

I am overly obsessed with traditions and rituals. Diwali is what I live for! I also was to turn 18 on the 10th of November.

I had meticulously planned my birthday to the T months ago. I consoled myself when Navratri got cancelled saying nothing could take away my birthday and Diwali from me.

Well, PSYCH!

On November 9th, I tested positive for covid. My sister and father did too.

All my hope, excitement, planning went down the drain of course.

I thought of writing about my experience, but I really couldn’t gather enough strength.

No no, I wasn’t that sick. My covid was asymptomatic, but I was just too sad!

I was stuck in my room for 10 days and then in my house for 21.

I did step out though, to give bottles and bottles of blood for a million reports, a million times! Okay fine they were tiny test tubes and I had to give it only four times, but still!

Anyways, god was kind.

We recovered.

Thank our lucky stars, dad was home from the hospital in good health too.

Look, I have had almost a month to process and deal. So, I am glass-half-full right now. If you talked to me then, I was enraged and bawling!

But yes, its over now. We are all healthy, together and thus, happy.

You see, I am not writing this to fake all these positive feelings, I am writing this to share my experience? Or to warn you? Guide you?

Well, I do not know why am I writing this but I am, so, bear with me, please.

Here’s a personal observation-

Covid doesn’t affect you physically as much as it does mentally.

The paranoia, the nerves, the loneliness really does get to you.

Because if you are young, there are positive chances that your body and immune system will combat corona but the oldies with a weaker immunity? I think you should not endanger your parents or grandparents by going out and being careless because you might be as good as a horse in 14 days, oldies do not heal that fast.

I was dying of fear every second my father spent in the hospital, getting steroids injected in his diabetic body.

So please, maybe not for you but for the sake of the elders in your house, fear the damn virus!

I also found comfort in my prayers because the doctors had done all that they could and science is not smart enough to tell me how I got the virus right before my most awaited week in the entire year! My navkar mantra and hanuman chalisa helped me sleep, along with the heavy doses of medicines of course!

All I want to say is, at some point, you will have to step out and there is a fair chance that you will get covid, I really hope you don’t, but if you do, don’t let it break your spirit.

You’ll make it through, I did.

Ps- To beat the damn odds, be extra precautious.

A pandemic isn’t a joke y’all!