iBet you're tired of the lockdown too.

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After lazing😴 around for a couple of weeks thinking what I should write in this lockdown season, I finaly got off my lazy butt and scribbled something down. It's not about a nose mask though.😀

First of all, I never thought I would be saying this but "Damn! I miss school". I miss the noise of kids running after each other, slamming doors, spilling drinks, babies crying, stumping of boots during morning assembly march, shouts of teachers trying to get pupil's attention, drumming of tables, pupils shouting their notes during music lessons, pupils cheering their team mates during games... I could go on and on. 
"Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory" - unknown. Now more than ever, I feel the void anytime I wake up and I can't go to work because school has been shutdown indefinitely. There were days I would dread going to school. All I thought was "this teacher life isn't for me". Today, the story is different. I miss my class sessions and the human interaction with my little geniuses.

Each day I turn on the television set, all I hear are the alarming death tolls and the increasing number of cases on BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, TV3 and the many news outlets you can think of. Who would have thought that we would wake up to empty streets with security officers like the military lurking around to see who dares flout the lockdown orders. I was hoping this was a movie or some world prank. Unfortunately, the reality stares us right in the face. The world "Giants" are even in a limbo. For the developing countries, the struggle is even more haunting. 

Now to the frontline health workers, what more can I say? Thank You! Ayekoo! Merci beaucoup! Gracias! Add your language too if you can.
However, there still remains the long overdue debate on: Who is more important? "The teacher or the doctor".😅 Well, let's leave that argument for another day. Right about now, do you know who is more important? Your guess is as good as mine. You and I are more important that's why the concern is that YOU stay at home. The stay at home order does me, the teacher, the doctor, the security service, the government and all of us a greater good.

The focus of this write-up is just to encourage you to stay home. The world has faced much devastating events than this and yet it didn't shut down. How about we keep safe so we could experience more together.


#StayHome #StaySafe #StopTheSpread

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