Courage with Covid-19
Alivia-Rae Green
My new year began with an uncertain start. Days leading up to the hopeful and exciting new year, I tested positive for Covid-19. I am one to personally take on challenges and uncertainty head-on, but anxiety-driven ideas caused me to burst into tears when I learned I was sick and had to quarantine for five days. My mom, astonished by my response, unintentionally bursted into laughter, she reassured me I would be fine (in which she was right). To ease up my worries she put me on a phone call with my aunt who is a physician to reiterate that I would be okay. I eased up but I couldn’t help thinking about depressingly spending my last week of winter break in bed, drinking orange juice, and munching on saltine crackers.
However, the days spent in solitude allowed me to face my inner worries and issues with courage. New ideas flourished. New perspectives arose. Collectively as a society, we all seemingly rely on the change of a date in our year for a catalytic start of a whole new version of ourselves without little to no preparation or realistic methods to achieve our new goals.
Rather than spending a few moments with ourselves, which I was forced to do, we expect our new selves to awaken with a big crowd, bursting fireworks, and fun commotion. Now, there is nothing wrong with being amongst the people we love, yet I recognized that we rarely dig deep within ourselves before setting the fireworks for a new year. Being sick this new year allowed me to filter out the holiday hecticness to allow myself to acknowledge the things worrying me and find solutions that were realistic and reasonable. I wish to use my experience as a lesson that you may not have all the courage upfront, but taking that initial time alone to process will allow yourself to come in contact with a multitude of effective solutions.
However, the days spent in solitude allowed me to face my inner worries and issues with courage. New ideas flourished. New perspectives arose. Collectively as a society, we all seemingly rely on the change of a date in our year for a catalytic start of a whole new version of ourselves without little to no preparation or realistic methods to achieve our new goals.
Rather than spending a few moments with ourselves, which I was forced to do, we expect our new selves to awaken with a big crowd, bursting fireworks, and fun commotion. Now, there is nothing wrong with being amongst the people we love, yet I recognized that we rarely dig deep within ourselves before setting the fireworks for a new year. Being sick this new year allowed me to filter out the holiday hecticness to allow myself to acknowledge the things worrying me and find solutions that were realistic and reasonable. I wish to use my experience as a lesson that you may not have all the courage upfront, but taking that initial time alone to process will allow yourself to come in contact with a multitude of effective solutions.
Hello! My name is Alivia-Rae Green. I am currently in tenth grade and I have been passionately writing stories since first grade. I love trying new foods (if it's vegan), meeting new people, and learning new things!