Tell a story about your pre-pandemic life in numbers.

During pre-pandemic life, I would take many things for granted without thinking closely about them. For example, I would travel to over 4 places annually for each holiday. this meant I would take a total of 8 flights there and back, and even more possibly for transits. On a daily basis, I would travel from my school and back 5 times a week, sometimes to the doctors for a casual check up. On the weekends to tuition and back, twice usually. This meant 4 car car rides. I hadn’t considered the impact of my carbon footprint before. Now that I am at home, I am much more conscious about it. A random stop at the shopping center whenever I feel like it for an item I hadn’t intended to purchase. Things came with such ease. Life was free of any restriction.

Now that I am at home I no longer have canteen food 5 times a week. This made me appreciate what I have, making me eternally grateful for the food I am provided at home. 3 meals a day and over 2 snacks between!

100 deaths, 200, 300, 400, it goes on. Over 50 phone checks a day only to see the daily government update messages.

From seeing over 50 people per day, to 5, including my dog. 0 new people met. 0 friends to physically interact with.

Now, the only form of communication amongst ourselves is technology- over 6 hours of video calls for school. An additional 2 hours spent binging TV. Occasionally, 1 video call with my friends every other day.

We are doing what we can. If anything, such times will bring our humanity closer together than ever.

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