A friend of mine recently told me that everywhere you go, every spot that you glance at and every experience that you live is full of lessons to be learned. Every one of us carry a history on our backs that determines the way we're gonna look at these lessons, and the way we are gonna react towards them, so all of us can imagine in our own way, the kind of lessons we will be learning along the way. However, what we are not told, is that some of those lessons will catch us off guard and will be nothing that we had thought of before.
I started 2022 pretty much skeptical. New Year's Eve felt like any other evening. I was playing videogames and when the clock hit 12, I went to hug my mom and then went straight to bed. The course of the following days would be pretty demotivating since my mind would start to focus on negative memories. Feeling like every aspect of my current life didn't mean any glimpse of success, feeling easily disposable from the vast majority of those who I've met in my entire life, not cultured enough, boring, not wealthy enough and of course, not good enough. Then, getting the feeling that it would be just the same in the future, until the day I die. Yes, I had let myself be brought down.
What I didn't know though, was that life was about to slap me in the face and give me a very valuable lesson: A few days ago I was tested positive for Covid.
Not knowing what to do, I sat down in my room staring at nothing, thinking. As an overthinker as I am, my priorities list suddendly rearranged in a new order. I had started to see things more clearly. I realized that I still had the most valuable asset in my life: My health, and that I could do anything I wanted as long as I was healthy.
- Alright! - I said - I understand now! I will start focusing on the things that will make me grow as a person, I promise.
And I learned my lesson. I've been in lockdown planning on things, looking forward to every activity that I'm gonna do once I'm Covid free. The pieces that I'm gonna paint, the sports that I will play, the journeys that I'm gonna venture on. There's still plenty to do in this life, there's plenty of forgiveness to give, there are plenty of experiences to yet live and there are plenty of bad feelings to make peace with. Anyway, almost 11 PM here, time for my meds and to go to bed.
