7 lessons to learn from Covid-19:

Huzaifa Farooq Chaudhry
6 min readAug 19, 2020

Covid-19 has proved to be a global disaster, that has ruined the world peace. Like every crisis or pandemics, Covid-19 has also taught us some lessons to learn, which we should have to learn so that we can able to fight future pandemics that are going to come after Covid-19.

Working from home should he an option for many:

Covid-19 teaches us that it isn’t necessary to go to the office for work, if you can work from your home than it should be a better option, because by doing this you can save your money and time both, more importantly, you don’t need to rush. You don’t have to follow office rules and regulations or wear that formal office dress, you can easily and efficiently work from home without any tensions and worries. If you have a lot of work to do so you can share your work with your friends and family members.
As a result of this pandemic, many peoples have lost their jobs and according to the current situation there is no chance for job openings, so in these circumstances, freelancing could be a better option, and for freelancing, you just need a pc/laptop and an internet connection. The best thing I like about freelancing is that you are your boss, you are free to do anything. You don’t have to work for 8 hours like a typical employee in freelancing, it’s up to you that how much time do you want to spend on your work, the drawback of working as an employee in a company is that you can only earn a basic salary, but while working as a freelancer you can earn as much as you want to earn, in freelancing you are working for yourself making your own life better and in a job you are working for your boss making a company better, so in freelancing, you can spend your time worthily. While working as a freelancer you can live your own life, you can live your life to the fullest, you can achieve your goals and dreams but as an employee, you will be the slave of your boss for the rest of your life.

The internet should be a basic right:

It is a fact that the internet is the basic right of a human being, in this 21st century. In some third world countries, citizens still have no internet access. In this pandemic situation when the whole world is paralyzed, when the whole of humanity becomes hopeless then we realize that the internet is the basic right for all of us. In this pandemic situation when the whole world is locked down, it doesn’t mean that we have to stop living, the show must go on, we have to tackle the situation. During this pandemic the world has taken out an alternative to fulfill their daily requirements i.e. educational institutions have started their online classes, businesses have started to be done online, people’s intentions for online shopping have increased a lot, work from home has become a common trend. Instead of waiting the world has started to live with the pandemic. So the countries which don’t have internet access are facing crises more than any other country. So this pandemic teaches us that the internet is not only used for social media, it is used for many other necessities.

Relations are worthy:

We often hear that from peoples that we don’t want anyone, we can live alone, we don’t want to talk with someone. This pandemic teaches us that it is easy to say these words but it is too hard to be alone, loneliness can kill you. In this pandemic when we are not able to meet our family, friends, and colleagues, these circumstances teaches us that these peoples are worthy and the most beautiful peoples on earth, they are those peoples to whom we hate or don’t want to look their faces, but they are the only peoples helping us in these hard times. So we have to learn that no one can live alone we need someone to share our happiness and tears. We have to love and respect peoples, we have to understand relations.

Savings:

This pandemic teaches us that savings should have to be a part of our life because bad times didn’t ask before coming. In this pandemic situation, many peoples have lost their jobs and many businesses have been shut down, peoples become homeless, peoples haven’t enough food to eat. So in these circumstances, only those peoples are living their lives calmly which have their savings.

Health is wealth:

This pandemic teaches us that your biggest wealth is your health. In these circumstances when science is badly failed in front of Covid-19. The only weapon which can be used against Coronavirus is your immune system, if you have a stronger immune system than you can easily defeat this virus and if your immune system is weaker than it is hard to defeat this disease. So we have to get serious, we have to care for our health, we have to quit smoking and the use of tobacco, we have to avoid fried and fast foods. Fruits, dry fruits, and vegetables should have to be a part of our daily food. We have to drink plenty of water daily. We should have to jog at least 20–30 minutes daily if daily jog isn’t possible than 2–3 times jog a week. We must have to make our lifestyle better. If your immune system is stronger than you can defeat any kind of disease and will live a good and happy life.

Sacrifice:

This pandemic teaches us the lesson of sacrifice at large scale, this pandemic teaches us that we should have to sacrifice for humanity, peoples, and our selves. We want to go outside, we want to do parties, we want to go for swimming, students want to go to school, college, and university, we want to play and to have fun, we want to go for tourism, we want to go to the parks, museums, play areas, etc., we want to do business and job, but we are sacrificing all of this for the sake of the peoples. We want to meet our friends and family but we can’t because we are sacrificing our relation for ourselves and our loved ones. In many countries, there is a complete lockdown due to this COVID-19, in which most of the countries are poor, but these countries are sacrificing their import-export at a large scale for the greater good of the public, due to this some countries have devalued its currency, and are going to be bankrupt but they are continuing the lockdown, sacrificing their country for their peoples. Many of us have lost their job, many startups and businesses are in loss or have been shut down, many peoples haven’t received their salary for the past months and if received then the salary is half of the actual amount, educational institutions have been closed for the past 7 months, hence the cycle of life has been jammed. Due to this disease each and, every single person of the universe is sacrificing for the greater good of the public and future.

Be patient:

you don’t have to rush, you don’t have to get worried. Be patient everything will be all right. I know that it is hard to be positive in this pandemic but believe me, stay positive. I know that many of you are broken and lonely, thinking of suicide, but please don’t do that, stop thinking too much, everything will be ok. If you look up at history then you will realize that our present is much better than our past, thanks to God that we haven’t seen world war 1 and 2 and other deadliest diseases and pandemics like swine flu, Spanish flu, and many others. I know that Covid-19 has taken a lot from us our beloved ones, peace, happiness and much more, it tried a lot to make us weak and terrified but it isn’t able to be successful because it doesn’t understand a human being that we are strong, united, humble and ready to die for humanity. Lots of pandemics had come and vanished but none of them had become successful in its objectives and it will never be successful. We human beings are unified ready to sacrifice for humanity as we have also seen in this pandemic, we aren’t afraid of pandemics, pandemics should have to be afraid of us.
I hope that soon COVID-19 vaccination will be invented and it will be finished like it never existed. The circle of life will be normalized very soon till then we don’t have to lose hope, we have to stay strong and fearless. We will beat that disease, that it becomes part of our history.

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