They say that " Life is like a wheel, sometimes you are in the top but sometimes you're in the bottom " Even before the pandemic my family faced different problems financial, broken family, fire victim, and more. This pandemic thought me how to value our health. I know we all affected to this pandemic. Being just a poor family, we look forward to the government giving some support. The first month of the community quarantine is so traumatic because we can not tell how dangerous the virus is. And we don't have enough equipment to protect and sanitize whenever my mom goes out to buy our daily needs. Being just a teenager and minor I don't have an idea of how to help. The past month of quarantine becomes scarier because every day in our community the COVID patients keep higher and higher. Sadly our barangay becomes the hotspot of the virus. So that was the traumatic event of my life. Imagine we must fit the 2,000php that my father gave every 15days, it's not enough for us, but what can we do. My mom had no job, she had an idea to cook and sell some lumpia. It was successful because many of my neighbors loved my mother how to cook. My sister also helps via online selling, its easier to sell the lumpia its because my sister has many lots of friends.
My mother sells outside so she had exposed to the people outside. And one day she had a small cough and colds, then she just takes medicine and ignores it. The next day she had a high fever and we separate a room because we have to rooms. Her fever doesn't stay longer, we thought that she had the virus but thanks to God she recovered for the high fever. My mom rest from cooking lumpia and rest for a while. I notice my body started to feel weak but I ignore it because maybe it's just a simple cold. It's maybe just anxiety because this pandemic made me assume that I have a septum for the virus. Before I didn't acknowledge the depression or anxiety, but now I feel its inside in me. This pandemic has given us a lot of shits but in every problem, there is a reason.
I realize that in life we must value every blessing that God provided for us cause we can't tell how long we survive in every problem we faced.
