How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
It’s been 5 years since our life stood still and then took a 360-degree turn. Nature had stuck us with her worst weapon: Covid -19.
I still remember that afternoon with an unsettling clarity. The first case confirmed in a neighbouring office, and just like that — we were filing out in hurried, bewildered queues. No script, no protocol that felt adequate, just people grabbing their bags and moving fast. Nobody said it out loud, but every single mind in that corridor had already switched to survival mode.
Mine went straight to groceries.
How many weeks could I stretch a full cart? What counted as essential? Overnight, “stock up for emergencies” leapt from prepper folklore to universal instinct. We had always shopped for a week — suddenly, a week felt dangerously optimistic. That one habit rewired itself before we even got home.
What followed was a season that was equal parts unsettling and quietly revelatory. Masks became accessories. Distance became courtesy. Four walls became the entire world for months on end. And somewhere inside that compression, we found unexpected rhythm — negotiating chore rosters with flatmates, actually cooking, checking on neighbours whose names we had never bothered to learn before. Friends, we had been meaning to call for months, but suddenly had our full, unhurried attention.
“We are in this together” and “This too shall pass” — they weren’t just captions. They were the scaffolding holding people upright while quietly mourning losses they couldn’t even gather to grieve properly.
For me, this blog became the exhale I didn’t know I needed. Ordo Ab Chao — order from chaos — was no longer just a name. Words that had been restlessly rattling against the walls of my mind finally found the door, and I let them out, one post at a time. It has been a journey ever since.
2020 was brutal, disorienting, and oddly clarifying all at once. The storm swept through and took many routines, people, and the careless ease of ordinary life. But it also left something behind in the rubble — a sharper sense of what matters, a more deliberate approach to health, hygiene, and human connection.
We were tested on adaptability and survival. And somehow, collectively, we passed with the survivor’s guilt.
How was your experience during the COVID -19? Let me know in the comments.
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