Sometimes I wonder, will things ever be the same again? will everything come back to normal? will my Voice be heard? will my freedom be free from the chains of this calamity? 😔 Time is not a joke to play with, no matter what you do it never stops. Time is long but short, Time gives the right to make mistakes and take corrections, Your actions rate your Maturity, Your act of Silence gives you Levels. Valuing Time leads to Perfection. VICTORY CHIKEZIE

Indeed it's a never expected tragic solemnity. The way everything started was as if, it was a joke to behold. A wild outbreak which led to millions of deaths, parent lost their children, wife's lost their husbands, every family being in the state of mourning all because of this pandemic. No one thought this pandemic (COVID 19) will spread beyond control, neither did I expect it in Africa (NIGERIA). Looking at our climate you would think there won't be a possibility of it coming, but the virus still entered. We recorded our first case in Lagos (NIGERIA), from there the number started growing which led the state to an emergency lockdown. All businesses, stores, supermarkets, churches and anything that will lead to a gathering was shutdown. Schools had to shutdown, restricting those that are graduate from graduating, even the introduction of E-learning is not working out because of the way our government officials are doing things not caring to find out if all the people in the country are capable of adapting to the new system of learning (Online). Okay now, if I may consider, how about those in the remote villages were even means of getting there is difficult (Transportation). Some are not even used to technology, talkless of having a smartphone, then how can they partake in the system of online learning. Being shot-out at twenty is something I never expected to happen but happened anyway. The pandemic brought a surprising change with many differences, something I never imagined before. We go through most of our lives planning for something that we hope to achieve, which I hoped for but never achieved it. It brought a shutdown in my life, making it seems like everything is stagnant. Being restricted, having a save routine to do knowing your life is on the line, always taking things to improve my immunity, trying my possible best to involve myself in exercise that I don't do on a normal basis, has not been easy. Being away from your love one's, because I never had the chance of getting back home before the borders closed and the lockdown started. Imagine a life, just you, you can't go anywhere, only you and your house looking around, doing the same thing over and over again not even having someone to talk to. The pandemic really came as a shock to me, putting regret in my thoughts, making me wish I was home, the echoes of hearing about it every single day brings tears to my eyes when no one is saying anything positive about it but rather your hearing more cases araises, people dying, isolation centres being filled up, no more facilities to check individuals for corona we are just living in assumptions. Being subdued by this virus that don't have a vaccine is an experience I never thought I will see but only heard of it when it occurred in the 1960s, it shuts me out from the world, being caged in my own freedom. Staying indoors is not an issue but when there is no power supply, not everyone that has the fund of affording a generator neither has the fund of getting fuel under the state of this lockdown. when the workers that are receiving salary are complaining about funds we the students what do we then do. Even stepping out to get essential supplies has not been easy, because prices of things has increased rapidly, limiting your food intake leading to depreciation in your health state. I fear what this time is doing to the children out there, creating fear in them. The challenge is to sustain this after adversity ends, a societal encounter with mortality has every potentials to transform the life of society. On a wider scale, humans are devastating the natural world, causing the Extinction of thousands of species at an ever-increasing rate. The virus thereby highlight the power of nature, particularly threatens humans, giving the power of connection whereby it created a means for distance families and friends to get back in touch. Never disagreed with the fact that staying at home didn't help, yes it's reduced our chances of being exposed to Corona virus, but it may have had a less obvious effects on our immune systems by leaving us more vulnerable to the other infections. For instance, we humans evolve on a planet with a 24-hours circle of light and darkness and our bodies are set up to work in partnership with sunlight. This state the obvious that sunlight helps in the production of vitamin D which strengthens our bones and teeth, it also enables the macrophages in our lungs to spew out an antimicrobial peptide called CATHELICIDIN, killing bacteria and viruses directly. I think the biggest challenge for me has been realising that I might not resume school this year. Panic runs rampant as the rhetoric portrays the beginning of the Apocalypse and the end of the world as we Know it the word feels paralysed in a suspenseful state of anticipation of the dreaded future. VICTORY CHIKEZIE