After every storm there is a rainbow

Well, it has been a long time since I was withdrawn from writing. If I’m correct to best of my memory it was late 2011 I wrote last. Life became complicated with all the busy studies, and prioritizing with which doesn’t actually need the priorities. We were chasing the world and life insensibly and personally I was fed up. When the story flows like this one fine evening, I got an invitation to write in this blog, made me think the pros and corns of the current pandemic as well as the my way of coping it substantially.

Rays of the world big disaster started falling this land in mid of the March. I was in my routine clinical practice when the first confirmed case was announced. All the universities were closed immediately and we were sent home at that particular day evening itself. And that was the last exact day of my repeated daily routine up to now. Hopefully for some little longer period too. When thinking back actually I feel, though repeating the routine was somewhat boring, it’s better compared to the boredom I was experiencing few weeks back. First few weeks after the lock down was the most horrible. Like a bird released from the fist I met my full freedom and experienced the sophistication of the life. Watched films, TV series, slept whole day and night to cover up the arrases of sleepless nights and exhaustions. But it was temporary, may be limited just two to three days. I felt bored again. No more or less food to eat. Moreover as girl, being on the settee or bed triggers my moms hatred the most. She started yelling for being like that. I was helpless.

Yes who says we are jobless and depressed? Well yes, here I’m trying to be some sort of optimistic😉. As medical students we ought to have some optimism for every circumstances we are encountering, since we had to undergo such a lot of academic breaks. And I know this not going to be the last till we graduate. But I hope not so.

Every cloud has silver line. As well after every storm there is a rainbow. So this is the storm. Where is the silver line? Where is the rainbow. Truth is yes we should see the end of the present crisis first in order to see the rainbow. But somehow we can predict it or hope for the best of it. Almost all the world is quite. Mother nature is healing after a heck of destructions caused by human against her. We are drastically going towards the technology, adhering online methods rather than wasting and polluting the environment. Unless it would have taken hundreds and hundreds of years to inculcate it here in Sri Lanka. Hopefully we can look for a fresh world after successfully combating the pandemic together.

But silver line? Where is it?. It’s inside with us itself. Do we loiter as we did earlier? Do we waste time by hanging with our friends as we did? Do we know what the family bonding is like? Personally for me I have learned a lot, sometimes got the practice what I know already during this short period. I took my dancing practices and made some covers. Learned how to play the guitar which I didn’t know entirely. Trying to gain my piano skills again. Experimenting new foods cooked by me😂baby sitting Et cetera Et cetera. Aprt from that there are plenty you can initiate to do too.It’s enjoyable rather than sitting alone and watching TV,thinking and sighing about the future or studying all the time. May be at the end you will miss some lessons, but instead definitely you will gain the potential to be a wonder women who knows how to cope up a problem, maintain the family with all the depressing situations and know how to win the battle of life.

Thank you
Sachini Sineka
Faculty of Medicine.