COVID-19 Is Here To Stay — Whether We Like It Or Not
By: Benny Lim
Tags: Life, Moving Forward, Covid 19, Moving On, Pandemic

When I installed iOS 14 on my iPhone, one of the new features that I’ve really liked is the fact that we can now add widgets onto the home screen of the iPhone and the one widget that has been my favourite is the photos widget — the one where photos from your photo album are just rotated and shown on your home screen without you having to actually open the photo album app.

This has enabled me to be reminded of old photos (I have over 10k photos) that were taken years ago and recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of pictures that were taken just last year.

And I started thinking to myself, will we ever be able to go back to how things used to be? Before this whole pandemic started and the entire world went into chaos?

My immediate answer to the question? No.

Let’s be honest, this disease is not gonna go away any time soon. Heck, it might not even go away AT ALL. Who are we kidding? Diseases that were discovered decades and even centuries ago, that have had vaccines produced to combat them are still around until today.

What makes us think it’s gonna be any different this time around?

I personally don’t. I think that the best way to move on is to adapt and accept the fact that COVID-19 is going to be living amongst us for a very long time and the sooner we can all accept it and adapt to it, the sooner we can move along with our lives and not be scared of it.

Despite the high infection rate and the number of deaths that have resulted from it, the number of those who recovered remains much higher and it shows that it’s not a one-way ticket to certain death the moment someone is infected.

At the same time, we’ve all been advised on how to keep ourselves safe and protected from it — physical/social distancing, wearing face masks in crowded places, constant sanitizing of ourselves or items that we’ve bought, etc. and honestly, if we can just follow these advises, we will give ourselves a good chance of staying safe, or staying protected from the disease.

With news that vaccines are being approved and with some even having received their jabs, we can only hope and pray that the number of new infections will start to see a steep decline and hopefully with that, a big drop in deaths related to it as well.

It will probably take a couple of years for the whole world to get their hands on these vaccines and possibly billions of dollars needed but eventually, the vaccine should be made available to most parts of the world.

Although the world may never be the same again, we can try to kickstart our lives that have been severely disrupted by the pandemic.

We just need to adapt and get used to what is now known as the ‘new normal’ which after a while, may just end up being known as normal.

Over the centuries, there have been many worldly events that have changed the course of how people live their lives. This year, this pandemic is no different. What happened this year will definitely see us having to adapt and change the way we live on a day-to-day basis.

And we really have to adapt quickly if we want to resume ‘normalcy’ as soon as possible.

I know I just wanna put this year behind me and get on with life. No point crying over spilt milk as the saying goes.

Hopefully, we can all do the same.