Other Side of Covid-19, Looking at the Glass’s Half-Full

Covid-19 has indeed changed us a lot – it impacted our ways of living, working and behaving.

Looking at the other side of it, I did spot some positivity, while looking at the half-full of the glass.

• All women know where EXACTLY their husbands and children are without needing to call them and ask.

• Mothers are commuting less – they no more run all over the city streets to drop off or pick up their kids to and from school of from their exercises.

• Food delivery rates has significantly dropped allowing home cooked meals to go back being the single source of food to the family – they also request their favorite food and mothers learned new recipes.

• The family now has quality time together – they sit together, eat together and as well fight more together

• People have become more hygienically self-aware – washing hands, hand sanitizers and washes are no more “nice to have”.

• People have more time to pray or meditate, to read or listen to music – there is more” me time “across the board.

• The planet has gone greener with less pollution, and less noise.

• Life routine and pace has slowed down a bit – people take time doing things, no rush in anything.

• Our expectations of things are less – we are happy now with simple pleasures, like a sunny day, a good cup of coffee or your favorite movie on TV.

• Families are forming teams doing things together – they clean the house, each one has a specific responsibility and they all complement each other.

• We all have learned to accept and embrace ambiguity and uncertainty better than before.

• We plan things one step at a time – day by day or week by week, no more thinking ahead for months, we now live in “the now”.

• The internet has proven to be the best invention of all time – it helped people keep their jobs and learners to continue learning and above all, it made humans stay connected.

• Working from home is very possible – we were really driving a lot and attending so many meetings, which we could have cut to half by leveraging technology and attending them online.

• The situation the world is going through is a wakeup call – it tells exactly what and who matters most.

• There is no strong or weak countries – we are equally weak.

• Death does not stop at how rich you are, what skin color you have, what god do you worship – death unites us. when death does, shouldn’t life unite us even more when we are alive?

• Doctors must be more appreciated than celebrities.

• Prevention is far better than cure.

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By Mona Radwan