The year 2020 has been a rollercoaster ride. Staying away from the outside world helped me to work on my inner self. Quarantine paved a way for my hidden talents. Staying at home doing nothing for the first few weeks made me feel so useless. I felt so down and unwanted. So I’d decided to pick myself from bed and make myself useful. Exploring my talents helped me vent my built-up emotions into something more productive. I tried my hand at cooking and playing instruments; but that did not get me very far. I tried my luck at singing and photography and I fell in love. I spent days and nights just listening to music, while singing and dancing to it. Music helped me to focus, not only on my studies, but now I found that cooking was not that bad. Reading also got me long way. It helped me to get away to a land of imagination where sitting at home would be the least of the problems faced by protagonist.
Getting cut out from the outside world, taught me a lot of things like self-discovery, true meaning of friendship but most importantly SISTERHOOD. “You only miss the Sun when it starts to snow,… You only hate the road when you’re missing home.” – I realised the true meaning of this sent only when I was put in the same situation. Distancing from friends really brought down the mood of staying at home. Social media was very helpful to connect with loved ones, but as days went by my friends and I drifted apart because we never had time for each other anymore. But this is when my sisters come into the picture. When I had lost most of my old friends and had no opportunity to make new ones, my sisters were there for me. We spend hours together, bonding over our similarities. We found out we had the same taste in music and artists. We whiled away our time singing, dancing, cooking and playing. We talked for hours, making each other laugh so hard until our stomachs began to hurt. We binge watched shows and movies, and believe me when I say that there is nothing funnier than my sisters’ side commentaries to the jokes on screen. We stayed up at nights vibing to One Direction, disturbing the neighbours and plotting pranks on our parents. Mid-night feasts are a treat when compared to midday meals. We laughed, cried and fought out our difference until we got so close to each other. I might have lost a lot a things during this past one year. But I got something that can never be replaced – an eternity of memories with my sisters. I smile now knowing that I might have the whole world against me, but I will always have my sisters beside me even when I am weird and dumb. When this pandemic started, I never knew what I would do, but now I know that no matter what, Life Goes On.
Seryn – Reposted from youthof2020stories on Instagram, a humansof2020 initiative
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