“Living” with COVID- The untold realities

As loved ones, friends, and strangers die each day, these time are reminiscent of the horror movies of World War II and the Vietnam war.

A friendship develops, between soldiers, they fight together, eat, drink, and celebrate small wins together, but the reality was that they are still at war. One by one at various points of each skirmish, mental, social, and emotional adjustments had to be made. A soldier’s, friends, mates, comrades are killed or permanently injured and their bodies or what’s left of them have to be removed from the battalion. They no longer have value as a solider. Yet, just yesterday they were friends and partners in battle. Think about the emotional drain of losing a friend whom you fought with side by side, eat with plate by plate, drank with cup by cup; then suddenly they are gone but the war goes on.

COVID is a war that broke out in early 2020. A war the entire world is battling against and losing. Each day requires new adjustments as we cannot travel to see our families and friends or worst, they are gone and no longer a part of this life’s journey. We are forced to think about our own mortality, our own existence, our own strength, our own weaknesses, and our own resistance. Will we make it out of this war?

For our youth, based on what we know, they may be able to withstand much of the onslaught of this war, so they can…