Read when your family member is a doctor or nurse

 

We hope you are safe and sound and are taking all necessary precautions during these hard times. These are testing times and will hopefully pass soon. The situation worsens when your family member is a doctor or a nurse serving the Covid patients. You lay down in your bed thinking of them and constantly praying that everything is alright. Every day when they leave to examine the patients, you find excuses to stop them from going, when deep inside you know they have to work every day to create a positive atmosphere for their patients in this chaos. Being a physician is difficult, you realize slowly. Being their family member, even more so.

It is in the time of crisis, that we realise that all frontline workers who are helping us and risking their own lives in such perilous times are like angels sent by God. All our helpers who are there in the background, be it doctors, nurses, policemen, delivery persons or even the garbage pickers, are playing a huge role in keeping us and our loved ones safe. It is due to these selfless acts that many people have recovered from the virus and didn’t have to sacrifice their health, safety and security.

These times are really tough and everyone’s going through a lot but it shouldn’t be the end of the world for you. This is a time when everyone is trying to help each other out and solve problems together. We all are fighting this war against Covid-19 together. Try to create an aura of optimism and hope around you and remember that this time shall pass too. Elbert Hubbard once said “Positive anything is better than a negative nothing.” Try to see the better side, more people are recovering, the curve is decreasing, people are getting vaccinated and soon this will all come to an end.

You’re lonely, down in the dumps, and it feels like this heaviness will weigh you down forever. Remember that feelings are visitors. They come and they go. Just take a deep breath and think to yourself “Things will get better and I will be okay.” Even if you think things are getting worse, it’s alright. After all, it is said that the sky is the darkest just before the dawn. Things will be better and you’ll be leaving the darkness behind.

Ships don’t sink because of the water surrounding them; ships sink because of the water that gets inside them. Similarly, don’t let what’s happening around you, trouble you on the inside and weigh you down. You need to be courageous; having courage does not mean you don’t get afraid, having courage means you don’t let your fear stop you. In the end everything going to be fine.