My life has been…complicated to say the least. Never easy but in today’s world there are so many of us that have struggled through hardships for as long as we can remember. Despite the struggles life has freely given to me, I was always able to see the bright side, even when it did take a bit longer during certain times lol.
Currently, I am a pharmacy student, and I just finished my P2 year (second year of my doctor of pharmacy program). I am also a mother of three teenage daughters and a wife. My husband is retired Air Force who supports my dreams and goals. I know without his support things would be a lot different and MUCH harder 😊.
I always used to say that I thought most people were generally good at heart and if it came down to it, would make decisions to help others. Over the last few months of living through the pandemic of covid-19, I have to say my heart has been sadly disappointed. My husband, on the other hand, would always tell me that the majority of people were not good. I would chuckle and tell him they were and that he just didn’t see it, but lately I have been thinking that all this time that I was wrong. Yes, some people have come out to show support and care for those in their communities that are disadvantaged from the current crisis but around the nation there’s people simply out there only thinking about themselves and the inconvenience it has caused them. I have a hard time going on to social media anymore because there’s so much out there bombarding everything about how people have the right to go out to the stores without masks or precautions. How they have the right to go eat in restaurants and get their hair and nails done. That immune compromised people should just stay home and how large scale events and celebrations shouldn’t be canceled because of those people. The people around me have turned into something I don’t even recognize as people anymore. It brings such a deep sadness to me. I’m not saying I’m perfect because trust me I’m far from it. I’m simply saying that I struggle to understand why people are showing such little compassion for others. Those out there protesting their rights to do what they want when they want it, do they even care or consider the rights of those they impact? Why are others getting their right to be safe stripped from them? When these people go out and spread the disease it increases the cases, increases the amount of people being hospitalized, and increases the death count. Hospital staff are forced to deal with more numbers of infected patients. Some staff have chosen not to go home and risk infecting their families. Where is their right to go home and see their families? Maybe they should begin to have the right to refuse to treat those that choose to go out and spread the virus. Maybe those protesting should need to sign a waiver stating they forfeit their right to medical treatment. Why in the world should those that are fighting to save people and those struggling to keep the virus from spreading being stripped of THEIR rights for those that are so self absorbed they can’t see past their own indulgences.
I’ve seen people complain about how drunk driving takes more lives than covid-19 and how people need to stop overreacting to this pandemic and go out as usual but last I checked we had restrictions for drunk driving in place BECAUSE it takes so many lives. We don’t have the “right” or “freedom” to go out drinking and driving without consequence to it. If someone dies from your decision to drink and drive you can be charged with manslaughter, yet making the conscious decision to go out and spread a deadly virus with no cure is fine? We also have laws and restrictions in place for things like smoking in public places, yet people aren’t protesting their right to smoke where they want in whatever buildings they please. Those restrictions are put in place to keep others safe and their health protected.
Initially I wanted to start writing as a way to get out on paper, per se, the struggles of making it through pharmacy school as a non-traditional student. Encouraging those that think they can’t make it because of the obstacles set before them, and I would like to get back to that, but I guess I needed a moment to simply put into words a small portion of the sorrow and sadness that engulfed me over these last couple months. I just don’t understand how so many can have such little value on human life. How so many could wish upon others such pain and hurt, not just physically from the effects they could endure but also emotionally from the potential losses they could experience. Can all these people really look at their loved ones and the people around them, imagine them struggling for air and to breath, see them lying in a hospital bed alone, and think that’s ok? What have we become 😢
LIFE AND ALL IT ENTAILS 