SLCN Gazette's Online Magazine, COVID-19-Special Edition

KEEP IT
now, we are being challenged by the COVID-19
Right
which is already affecting some areas of our
pandemic
But how can we come out victorious over every
lives.
as we try to acclimate ourselves to the "new
challenge
Some of the difficulties we face right now
normal”?
lack of finances, loneliness from staying far from
include
or friends, unproductiveness and more. It may
family
that the struggles we are facing right now are far
seem
ending, sometimes discouraging and may have
from
penetrated various areas in our lives. Here are
already
tips you may follow to get through these difficult
some
times:
face the challenge. We can’t win the
First,
if we don’t show up, right? It is already
game
or it is about to come. One way or
there
there will be a different situation in
another,
future, but there will still be a challenge,
the
sadly, we are the same. So might as well
and
and level-up your challenge-taking
boost-up,
by facing this one.
skills
trust your capabilities. The
Second,
may dictate the boundaries of the
situations
and sometimes we feel uncertain
challenge,
our strengths, talents, and resources,
about
we tend to overthink already that we
which
know what to do. And concentrate on
don’t
you have, rather than the things you don't
what
Everything you have right there, IT WILL
have.
appropriate and legal). Take a chance,
morally
give it a shot.
and
third, ask for help. Help can come in
And
ways and forms. Often there are
different
or services that might be in short
supplies
but we need them to accomplish a task
supply,
get-by.. then inquire. Or sometimes, we
or
someone to give us a little push or words
need
encouragement because we don’t know
of
to start, or we are slowing down… then
how
Or sometimes, we need someone to be
ask.
because we are tired physically and
with
maybe a friend to have a laugh
emotionally,
a classmate to eat dinner with, or a
with,
of us may think that these are hard to
Some
or it is not their nature to do such.
do,
B y M a r l o u i e D L . F i g u e r a s
BY MARLOUIE FIGUERRAS
Focus on
what you
have, rather
than the
things you
don't have.
family to watch a movie/series with… then ask.
WORK or MAKE IT WORK (as long as it is
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