Uncertain times we all are in

(Written last March 24, 2020)

It's a sunny Tuesday morning today. Looking outside my window, I can see the clear, blue sky. The warmth of the sunshine and the wonderful weather brings me peace amidst the difficult and uncertain times we are all facing right now. I never imagined that the whole world will wake up one day with this pandemic. People are so used to only seeing it in the movies or in novels but this is now happening in real life.

Back when the year started, we were all just watching all this occurring in China, specifically in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel corona virus, now referred to as as SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2) causing the COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019). But after just a few months, it has now spread here in Europe, the United States, Iran, and other parts of the globe. Our generation hasn't experienced something as big and as debilitating as this. People are getting sick and the unfortunate ones are in critical condition and dying, the healthcare system is overwhelmed and front liners, which include doctors, nurses, and other medical staff are risking their lives, the economy and financial of stability of countries are being challenged, governments are faced of how to better handle the situation. These are unprecedented times in a generation who has state-of-the-art facilities, who is is so used to technology in their day to day living, who is having a comfortable and good quality of life, so much better than the generation before.

Our lives are spent working and going to school, socializing with friends and family, and, from time to time, improving different aspects of it. We are so busy and then one day, we wake up hoping this pandemic is just a bad dream.