Sumaikah Khan Karachi, Pakistan that moment when i can’t breathe, when i have no one around me and all i do is stare at a wall for hours, when i’m about to break down, when i want to cry but i just can’t because every single tear feels like i lose myself even more, when …
Khairun Zhafifah Affindie ( Janes A. ) Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia maybe we’ll never be able to go back to the way things were before but darling , it’s not the end , just a momentary bend so i need you to always take a moment to center yourself ; take a deep breath , exhale …
Kashaf Fatima Lahore, Pakistan It feels wrong to say this, like I’m betraying humanity itself, But… how? How else would I have come to know about longing if it hadn’t been for this disease making normalcy seem like a child’s distant, forgotten dream? How else would I have yearned for someone so dearly? How else …
Hannah Greah Mendoza Meneses Dagupan City, Philippines Every morning, I wake up, eat breakfast with my family, attend my classes, spend time with myloved ones and go back to sleep with a lot less fear and uncertainty than I had before. I closemy eyes at night with the relief of knowing that today was a …
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Pranjal Velani Delhi, India The Virus had spread all over the world. No human race was exempt from it. It did not differentiate anddiscriminate. It was sometimes vicious, terrorizing people left and right. All the while making a pompand show of itself. It had no eyes. It did not look before consuming you.It had me …
Nehir Altınkaya Bodrum/Muğla, Turkey Covid 19, the virus that has changed our whole lives in seconds. The virus spread so fast that we could not even realise what was going on until COVID-19 hit our own country. We were scared and desperate. Every single person has come up against something they had known nothing about. …
Ishita Rani Cuttack, Odisha, India As I stroll on my terrace today, I admire the sky, I think about how long it has been since I, not justnoticed, but observed how the sky gives up its blue and orange hues of the dusk to put on a darktunic dotted with such beautiful gemstones like stars …
Izzah Idris Malaysia It sure felt like a hopeful year of mine had been taken away from me, brutally. But it too let me view things in a whole ‘nother perspective. Who would’ve thought? It took me a damn pandemic to clear my mind out — for the infinite number of times. All the days …
Sheryl Jacob Dubai, United Arab Emirates The door slowly clicked close, and they immediately knew that it was final; that it was the end,and the beginning. Something new, but something unwelcome in the midst of their very busylives, and promises that they had to fulfil. It was summer, and they were stuck indoors; community beaches …
Allison Pascual New York, United States Despite the scientific and technological progression of society, there is a sort of ignorance tothe world we live in. A political culture of individualism and hyperfixation on civil liberties seems tohave been the perfect brew for COVID-19 to take hold in the United States— as even withimplemented restrictions and …
