The change begins with you

Let's Spread More Hope than Fear This morning, I had a close to 3 hour phone chat with a close young friend who has battled Covid-19 twice and overcame it. The previous time I had talked to her, her breath had been sharp and I could feel she was struggling to breath.  Today, when I heard her strong former self, I knew she had won the battle, and she confirmed that she had.  The first time she got the virus was the worst. This is how she felt; So weak that lifting a spoon was close to impossible. Mental fatigue and slowness: it took great strength to understand simple things like how to eat, or if it was day or night time, and her concentration levels were burnt out. She could feel both hot and cold at the same time. Breathing was as painful and the chest felt heavy. Being irritable to sound, noise, light and touch. All these were in interplay with other signs like cough, flu, headache, fever and others. It took her two weeks to get better even though she was on medication. The seco

Google photos popped up a smiley photo of me taken in June last year. A reminiscent smile spread across my lips. Memories of the first Covid-19 lockdown trickled in my mind...and my writing spirit was revived! It seems like a ghost awoken from the past. Words and sentences yearning to be let loose from my mind are relentlessly tagging at my mind...and what to do? Can't help but write again😃 As I sit in the centre of these four walls that I now call home, in a far away district from home, in yet another lockdown, I am more than glad that my writing spirit has once again been revived...and the joy in finding my passion once again is beyond measure...for I have found ME!!! New posts shall be out soon.  Stay safe,x