My personal experience about the pandemic has been for me a lesson of life from which I was able to learn many things

Gracia, Jorge

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Sacred Heart University: DigitalCommons@SHU

COVID EXPERIENCE:My personal experience about the pandemic has been for me a lesson of life fromwhich I was able to learn many things. Only a few days after the pandemic wasofficial around the world, my country (Spain) started a quarantine that lasted around5 months, in which we couldn’t go home except for buying food or elements of firstnecessity. For me this period was very tough and hard, given that I’m a person thatloves the daily routine and doing things all the time, either going to school, going totraining, hanging out with my friends, and so on. After two weeks of being angry withthe world, one day I told myself that I had to change this way of life that I wascarrying, so that I decided to start to build my own routine in my home, whichincluded: study, workout, reading, and trying to know new things. Thanks to this Icontinued studying (although it wasn’t mandatory, given that there wasn’t going to beany exam). As I did this on my own, I only studied the things that I liked the most (allrelated to business). Thanks to this, now I’m studying for a business degree, so thatthis quarantine time helped me to find my passion. As well, I started to be a fan ofthe workouts related to lifting weights, a thing that I had never liked to do. Nowadays,I can say that I wouldn’t be able to pass a week without completing my soccertraining with a weightlifting session. Related to trying new things, I have always beena fanatic of music, and one of my childhood dreams was to know how to play theguitar. Therefore, thanks to my mother and watching YouTube tutorials, now I canplay the guitar.To conclude this part of the reflection, I would like to summarize all my experience ina small teaching: life consists in reinventing yourself and adapting to new situations,even if the adversities and the difficulty of the situation overwhelm you, persist andnever give up, because what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

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