{"id":2385,"date":"2022-07-07T01:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2022-07-07T01:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:23:22","slug":"my-unseen-benefits-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/2022\/07\/07\/my-unseen-benefits-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"My Unseen Benefits of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“My Unseen Benefits of the Pandemic” Written by Alex Levitt (Photo:\u00a0https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/village-sunlight-fields-town-2090495\/<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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I was not enrolled in classes at Farmingdale when the pandemic broke out. I was taking a break from school to focus on my mental health because at that time having a full course load was not possible for me. I did not know what to think when schools were being closed and lockdown started. I was of the opinion, like so many others, that things would go back to normal in a couple of weeks or a month at most. <\/span><\/h3>\n

Lockdown came at time for me where I was already limiting my social interactions because I was feeling very depressed. It was difficult for me to process the extent of devastation and isolation Covid was casting over everyone because I was so locked in my own headspace. As the pandemic established itself as a threat that was not going away for the near future, it felt like the rug was pulled out from under me and I was caught in a weird limbo state. Like I was trapped in amber, viewing the days going by without a real sense of agency in how they played out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

I started to feel increasingly more down and despondent. It seemed that even if I was able to pull myself out of this depression, what was waiting was not particularly better. I would have to learn to function in a new world, when I was ready to reenter. Even while feeling more myself, it would be harder to acclimate to this world grappling with a pandemic and the disruption of how life used to be.<\/span><\/h3>\n

I started to feel better in October of 2020 and began to do things to keep busy and feel productive. I got a job at Target and started working in the food market section. Then in the spring of that year, I decided to go back to school and signed up for four remote classes at Farmingdale. <\/span>The more I took on, the more I felt proud of myself and that I was evolving in my ability to take on more responsibilities.<\/span><\/h3>\n

All the adversity I faced prior to Covid and during the bulk of it, built me up to be a solid force that could not only face hardship, but take it in stride. I enjoyed remote learning and got better at portioning out my workload every day. By the end of that Spring semester though, I felt ready to be on campus in-person and interact with other students and even make some friends.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The pandemic revealed to me that hardship, while unbearable at the time, can serve to strengthen you and bring you closer to who you are and are meant to be. I believe there are unseen benefits to many difficult experiences and Covid, after some time, proved to be no different.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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