It’s Time To Wake Up!
It was several months ago.
I remember I was still at school, sitting at my Ap Human Geography class. Listening to my teacher talking endlessly about cultural landscape, political interactions, and the physical geography of the world. Her voice is like a lullaby, making my eyelids go heavier and heavier...
But just as I was about to fell asleep, I heard her talking about the coronavirus, so I raised my head up from the desk, sleepiness all gone with a sudden.
"The media is just over exaggerating everything you know," she told us, " For sure there won't be a pandemic happening..."
And at that moment, her words drived me into thinking...
I doubt that...but I didn't refute her at that time, I just listened...
Quietly, like most of us did,
way back several months ago,
before we thought anything could happen to us today.
Lies, Lies, Lies
It was all lies...
Everywhere!
On the television, on the media news report, on social media, on the street...
People talk about lies, all this time...
Oh it's just like a flu.
Don't worry it's hard to get it.
What? You're scared? Don't be, it's fine.
Ha! There's not even anyone died from it in the U.S yet!
So funny! Why should I be scared?
And look what happens today?
Thousands, or even millions of people dying around the world!
And especially the United States, where there's been the most cases reported.
More than 10 million people got infected...
Just here,
In the United States...
Seriously?
Is this a joke to you?
You think it's funny?
You think it's funny that millions of people are getting infected by this deadly virus day by day?
You think it's funny to watch them suffer and died?
You think it's funny that even little innocent children have to suffer through this just because of your hilarious jokes?
You think it's funny to watch your family and friends falling before your eyes one by one and leaving this world...forever?
YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?!
Let me tell you. The truth.
None of this is funny, and none of these are jokes to entertain you.
This is serious,
the world is collapsing right now, at least here in the United States.
We're running out of supplies,
people are dying!!!
The hospital is so crowded that many people don't get the help they need.
Dead bodies are piling outside of the New York City hospital because there's just too many dying every second...
Tik Tok....Tik Tok.....The time is not gonna stop and wait for us to realize...
Numbers,
we see the number of people getting the virus everyday through news,
but we were just sitting there, thinking it's not a big deal.
Numbers...
Wake up!
They are not just numbers!
They are the souls, the flesh and the blood we lost from this earth!
Countless of them souls, the happy ones, the creative ones, the influential ones...
Wake up!
Do something!
Even as simple as washing your hands more often and stay home!
We can't just lay on the sofa thinking the virus will go away by itself!
No!
If you think that, then you're so wrong!
If we do nothing, there'll only be more people getting infected, and more souls being lost From this world.
Take action!
You have no idea how much those people need your help.
Protect yourself first,
At this time, loving yourself is to love the others.
And remember this.
Don't give up!
Stay strong!
One day we'll see the light and hope,
One day we'll be able to embrace the happiness,
One day we'll be able to fight off the virus, and rebuild from what we lost...
And together,
We can!
If only if we believe in ourselves.