🌼 My Golden Days in Covid That Would Not Come Again 🌼
I was only six years old then small, but looking at the world with big dreams. Right at that time a terrible disease spread across the globe: COVID-19. Newspapers and TV talked about nothing else people falling ill, many dying. My little heart was afraid.
India and the rest of the world went into lockdown. Schools, parks, markets everything closed. Streets emptied, silence everywhere.
But in my tiny life a different kind of time began. 🌸
I was doing very well in school. I took online classes from home while Mom sat beside me. I studied hard, did my homework, scored high marks. Everyone said, "She's our topper!"
During lockdown I spent lots of time with my family talking, drawing, playing. Though the outside world had stopped, my little world turned golden. That's why I call it my golden days. ✨
In 2022 the COVID-19 vaccine finally arrived. Slowly things returned to normal. School reopened, I met my friends again.
Strangely, my focus began to slip. I had been first in class, but little by little I became average. One day I held my report card and realized I wasn't the same anymore. I felt awful, and I remembered those lockdown afternoons: quiet, online classes, Mom next to me, me as the topper.
Even now I sometimes close my eyes and think of that time.
Those days may never return…
but they taught me something:
I was a topper once, which means I can be again. 🌟
Because golden days aren't just memories
they're proof of the strength inside me. 💛
The End