What did you do with your time? What will you be saying post COVID?

The global COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented scenario for millennials and young adults across the globe. Most of our everyday routines have been disrupted and our physical movement have been restrained by the public health instructions. Indeed, this is not an idiosyncratic experience for anyone to pride about: we have all experienced it and posterity will judge us as to how we spent our time.

For many of us, we whine about our movements that have been restricted and our educational calendar that has been cut short with great uncertainty about the future. While these concerns are understandable, I believe the situation has also provided an opportunity for us to reflect on our lives: about how we have lived our lives in the past; how our previous experiences have shaped our present context? where we will be going after the COVID situation wanes? The period also offers us the opportunity to call family and friends whom we have long forsaken.

We have no excuse whatsoever that we were busy with our school or work; We really have time to talk now and we should make the period count in that regard. It is also an opportunity to acquire skills for the future. There are numerous skills programs online on Edx  and cousera amongst other platforms. Use the time available due to quarantines and lockdowns to take the course you have long procrastinated about. At least you will have the story to say in the time of COVID, amidst all the stress, I enrolled in this online course, program or podcast or that discussion group. Don’t be overwhelmed by the stress of COVID. Indeed, some of us have experienced harsher physical, economic and social difficulties due to the COVID situation. We can mourn for a short time or whine sometimes, but we should not fall into the mindset that all is bad because such mindset may not help us at the end.

Let us all gird up our loins and face the uncertainties with positive thoughts. Start enrolling in this online skills program that you have long procrastinated in doing. Resume you research project or novel/poem that you have left to decay. Call the older people in your church to over the mobile to great them.  In short, we all have different ways of making use of our time now. Let is not fall into the situation, lets walk through it. I hope we have inspiration to do sometime amidst these challenging times. What did you do with your time? What will you be saying post COVID?