Diary of a day during the COVID-19 pandemic

I’m writing hoping that tomorrow will not be like yesterday, and today will be a step towards a better future. Life is always a mystery to us, but we still love it the way it is. Sometimes plans change, but some changes… 

However, we should not see those as changes that ruined our plans, but as something that had a positive impact in our lives and this is the best for us. During these days in which humanity is facing the same challenges, we have realized that we’re all equal – made of flesh, blood, and bones. Anything else surrounding us does not make us any better or any worse, any richer or any poorer than the others.

Everyone has been focused on their health and not fortune during these difficult times. This shows that health is the true fortune of each of us. Days have become very similar and sometimes we don’t even know what day or date it is. All that gives us hope is our breath and our heart which does not stop beating.

Sometimes life gives us the opportunity to love and appreciate what we have, those that are close to us, but we still do not appreciate it as a part of ours. This pandemic has taught us to appreciate what we have, and how to love people who are close to us. A very small thing is enough to bring us back to real life, close to our family, people we love, and the things we really like.

Everything seems cleaner these days, including our houses, the nature around us, and there’s more purity in our souls as well. It turns out that the virus did not bring “imprisonment” and darkness to us, in contrary; it made us aware of what it means having freedom, is it physical or spiritual. We should not always see changes as a negative thing since they bring us a variety of things which are way much better than what we initially thought.

Days keep passing and all that remains to us is to protect ourselves from each other, and to remind ourselves that together, with caution, we can beat another challenge, another virus.

This article was written by Erëz Paçarada, a student in the Department of Social Work in UP under the monitoring of professor Vjollca Krasniqi within the cooperation with SIT. This article was written within the project “Men and Boys as Partners in Promoting Gender Equality and the Prevention of Youth Extremism and Violence in the Balkans”, implemented by CARE International Balkans in partnership with SIT and YMCA in Kosovo and supported by Austrian Development Agency, and Oak Foundation.