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THE NEW “NO HOPE”:

What if all of this is a dream? Perhaps all of us are provided opposite healthcare. Ironically, it was an
bodies merely hallucinating our reality. Keeping epoch where people were the happiest. Although all
this question in my mind, I start my day by taking a countries faced hardships, they managed to provide
shower. I simply close my eyes and let the water skim resources to their citizens as all the resources had
over my body. Each day is like a new sentence. It is not been exhausted. The year 2020 is now looked
filled with thoughts evoking your past and memories down on in history as the First Apocalypse started
that you will make for the future. It is a new day, with a virus then. In light of the current situation, it is
which means the commencement of a new sentence heartbreaking to look at a world with ever-increasing
after a full stop, that is, the previous day. I put on one deforestation. A world with frightfully contaminated
of my favorite outfits and feel ready to kick off my water bodies and endangered wildlife. Fields have
day. As I put the car keys in my pocket, I caught sight transformed into enormous factories with extreme
of a mask that had been sitting there for a long time. I industrialization. It’s like the whole world is upside
feel absurd looking at it. A single mask feels illogical down and will change for the worse. We’ll ultimately
nowadays because it has become common to wear have to accept our pasts and the limited memories
layers of them to keep ourselves from getting infected we made. There is a dearth of humanity as countries
with the virus. continue to fight for oxygen and other exhaustible
I was gleefully living my teen years when the resources. The pandemic was the gloomiest phase
pandemic started. Since then, it has been a of my life, but I seek solace in the fact that it is
rollercoaster with multiple covid variants- alpha, delta, nearing its end now. The air quality index continues
omicron, and so forth. Trends of past pandemics to deteriorate with every passing day. As a result of
indicate that the pandemic could turn into an air pollution skyrocketing, there has only remained a
endemic. Now that I take a stroll down memory lane, subtle distinction between day and night, as the sky
I realise that life was filled with hope when we were looks calamitous.
bound just by a single mask. Today, a single mask is
equivalent to a piece of tissue paper. The cause of
most deaths these days is asphyxiation. A realization
I’ve had over time is that life changes every moment.
Therefore, we must remember that the story we live
today may not exist tomorrow and that we must live
every moment to the fullest. I feel disconsolate for
people who lost their loved ones due to coronavirus
but believe that they have departed for a much better
place, Heaven. I recall people dying even after being

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