This lockdown was in-short a 3 week planned break that turned into a 3 month clueless and unexpected vacation.
I still remember the day when me and my friends were cursing the university that they'll risk our life and torture us till the end of world when everyone’s cells started buzzing. I looked at the notification; it was the official notice from the professors stating our university will be closed due to the orders prevailed by the honorable Prime minister. After that text and it being a Friday no one studied and it was also like our semester ended so we partied and were planning how we will spend that break binge watching the different series.
The initial weeks were like a long party going on. Although we had already started having online classes but it was a heavenly time. But it slowly started taking a toll on me; it became frustrating sitting at one corner of the room doing nothing. Even watching movies and being on social media started getting boring. I decided to dedicate all my time to improve myself in every way possible. I brushed up my skills on many things, helped mom with household work, learned many new things, finished reading books left unfinished, and tried to make the birthday special for all my friends ( because coincidentally we all have our birthday around the same time of the year).
This lockdown overall had its own ups and downs, positives as well as negatives but it gave me a life lesson that we can manage a good living on the few basic requirements . Earlier we panicked that how are we going to survive without ordering food or ordering things online but later we managed with the things we had with us. In my opinion these changes were necessary to bring us at a place where everything is quite different; “The new normal”.