Here we are, almost at the end of 2020. It’s been a year full of surprises, shock, changes that we did not expect. The Covid-19 has brought so much destruction but yet so many good habits, and positive thoughts in many.

Frequently, we used to see posters and speeches from people who thought that city life was making our lives just business. Boom, came covid-19 splashing across the world, forcing everyone into isolation.

Everyone thought this would last for 2 weeks. My friend, it’s over a year now, and still, it isn’t in control.

Now let us take a look at the advantages and all that progress we all have surely accomplished.

1. Gardening! This is hard to believe but after we all got isolated, somehow we got interested in gardening. Since when does GARDENING have to do with anything?
2. Cooking. Again something that is somewhat hard to believe is that people decided to learn to cook with their kids.
3. More time with family. Before the pandemic, it was difficult to try and have proper family time. When we go to a restaurant, back then, it wouldn’t really be family time because someone or the other would be talking about business, the other one listening to this person talking about business, others both looking at the phone. But when we all get isolated in one place without any other go, we start bonding with each other.
4. Online classes. Online classes were thought to be that one dream that would never come true to many. Turns out, covid-19 is a mystery box full of good and bad surprises. You just need to dodge the bad surprises when they almost hit you.
5. Pollution decrease. Since everyone got isolated in their homes, the smoke from cars decreased since nobody is driving in their cars much. Factories are probably closed too, resulting in no smoke from their chimneys and no hair dye into the ocean. Plastic problems have also decreased since nobody is using those or sending them into the ocean. ( all of these might not be accurate but I'm just guessing these since I have not gone outside for a long while)

Greta Thunberg is probably a happy daisy after all these positive changes in our community. But, covid-19 is still a serious issue. People are losing their lives sometimes just because they couldn’t stand staying indoors and didn’t wear their masks. Others because they have no choice but to go to work and managing their companies. Stay safe everyone. Take care. This is Devi Nandana signing out.