Surviving the Rainy Days
Dear diary, Today is the last day of my 14-day home quarantine. It's the 14th day since I first found out that I have COVID-19 so before I go back to my chaotic everyday life, I want to write something to look back to when the rainy days come again. "Saving for the rainy days" is something that everyone has heard of, but in my almost 28 years of existence, I have never learned what the "rainy days" were actually like until two weeks ago. You see, last year, I decided to give myself the gift of freedom. Like a genie in a bottle, the universe was generous enough to grant my wish though it came with a price. If it could talk, this is what it would have said to me: "To celebrate your first anniversary of living independently, I give you your first taste of the rainy days!" I did not go out for a whole month before I acquired the virus except to get groceries and I work from home since 2017. The week before, I tried to quit smoking once again and even star...
