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The first struggles of staying indoors, online connectivity

and creating answer sheets into pdf files for teachers,

never knowing what tomorrow might bring. It is

fundamental to human nature to focus on and amplify

one’s own misfortunes first and for most of us school-

going children, this year has entailed an aching loss of

precious moments. For each and every one of us, across

the spectrum of age and experience, these are months

of our life slipping away that will never return, for life

isn’t known to be repetitive. There is a general yearn for

the routine, the normalcy of the old, with no inkling of

when it will finally arrive. It has irked me, and still does,

that under different circumstances, life right now would

have been something else.

There are nights I go to sleep, wondering if waking up is

worth it in this bleak monotony.

I must say, I have spent the better part of my life in DPS

Newtown and if there’s any sophistication that these

known walls and open, green spaces have furnished me

with, it is the teaching that times change, that life is a

wave of motion, that in such trying times, all one can do

is to hold on tight and wait for all the joy and satisfaction

to finally arrive.