Focus on the Self and Not the Surrounding.
By: Vijaya Dialani
Tags: Self Improvement, Positivity, Happiness, Life, Growth

Being a teacher, a science teacher, to be more specific, I encounter so many views of the students and the teachers and parents. While I was busy teaching habitat and adaptations to my kids, I asked them whether they are adapted to e-learning because all of us have been learning online for nearly one year. Most of them nodded without a smile which conveyed their thoughts to me very clearly. A few seconds later, I randomly said Thanks to coronavirus, we have developed ourselves and started expressing their disagreement with my agreement. As a result, I am writing this article, which focuses on the self and not the situation.

All of us are going through a revolutionary change. The catastrophe that coronavirus has caused can neither be neglected nor be avoided, but it can certainly be accepted and utilized for the benefit of our society. Let me give you an incident to facilitate understanding. A colleague at work was very frustrated that he has not traveled for almost 12 months now and that he might not travel for the next six months. After listening to his irritability for nearly 8 minutes, I replied very politely, “I hope you now value the freedom you have, and you will utilize it only for the purposes that favor you and are not against you. My statement didn’t let him speak anything further, and I assumed that he got my point.

There is no denial that coronavirus has done non-recoverable damage to individuals and society as a whole. Nevertheless, to my knowledge, quite a few people have made the best out of this period, which would have been impossible otherwise.

A friend and an outstanding actor realized that he has to put in his energy somewhere while locked up at home or else he, along with his energy, will end up in a disaster. That’s when he started to write a book, which was his dream for ages, and he not only completed the book but also published it. If I had to ask him, he would say 2020 has been the best year of his life because he achieved his dream. Another friend tried and discovered that he is an amazing cook during this pandemic, and cooking brings him loads of pleasure.

On the other hand, devastated by the coronavirus, my well-settled neighbor, an architect by profession, went into depression because of the drastic decline in the world economy, which may or may not affect his business.

Pandemic shares common features with the second world war

In the second world war where people were facing similar lockdowns. The only slight difference is that we were locked up in our houses, and they were locked up in prisons. Today we have numerous options for online delivery, but they were starving. People were dying with no food and basic amenities, and all those who were alive were waiting to die because it seemed better than surviving. There was no ray of light until a psychologist changed their opinion about the situation which offered a huge aid in recovering from the situation.

Nature had hit the restart button then, and nature has hit the restart now. We evolved then, and we are evolving now. Every challenging experience that we face has only two possibilities Evolution or destruction. Fortunately, the choice is always ours to focus on ourselves and evolve or focus on the situation and be destroyed. Choose wisely.