Importance of Healthy Lifestyle to Fight against Covid-19
-Kinjal Gautam
Since past few months, we all have heard a lot about the pandemic, Covid-19, its symptoms and preventions. We have even heard that if your immune is strong, we can fight against it. It is true but do we really apply the healthy lifestyle in our daily lives. No, some may have followed but many people don’t. If we had been careful from the beginning, the world may not have come to such a horrible condition.
I know the people suffering from the diseases like diabetes, cancer, heart diseases etc have weak immune .Before it had spread rapidly we all knew such kind of patients should be careful but they did not take this disease Covid-19 seriously, so they have reached to such conditions. Thousands of people from USA and Europe are dying every day due to this disease. No doubt, they are the rich people who live in the developed countries. They have better health facility in comparison to the people from undeveloped countries like Nepal. Though we Nepalese don’t have enough hospitals and other health care facilities, we can prevent the disease form our sides.
We all have heard about the famous proverb, “Prevention is better than cure.” So now it is our turn to show others that our economic condition maybe weak but we are very careful. We all should be prepared not by reciting the slogans or singing songs, it may not help, this disease does not have ears to listen to us but we need to be prepared by making our inner body strong.
Our Nepal government has extended lockdown for 15 days .From 12th chaitra to 25th of Chaitra. People are taking it as monotonous to be locked inside the home. Rather, in my opinion, we can utilize this time with our family as it can be a great opportunity to build a great bond with each other. So far as my parents are concerned, they are teaching me to be independent by making me wash my own dishes, socks, clean my room etc. Some of us do not like to do work so when our parents tell us to do household works or show us some articles containing the lesson that children should be taught household works, we become sad, angry or irritated. But now we need to realize how important it is to be independent in reality. Before, I used to think that, what if I don’t know how to cook, I can order it from restaurants and online food servers, the fast food is far tastier and has varieties too than our home cooked foods. But now, during this lockdown, I understood the value of learning the household skills, too. What will happen to us if any day such condition may appear again in future and at that time so no shops will be open and how will we survive?
These days, our home is our world due to the lock down. I am enjoying this different kind of experience being locked inside the home. Me and my little sister walk, run, play, fight for I-pad at some time again we patch-up. We also do dance and dramas at home. Since I don’t have school homework, I can watch videos on you-tube, too. Earlier I also used scroll over Tiktok videos, but nowadays, that is full of corona virus related themes so I am fed up with this topic anymore. My parents order me to help them in cooking and cleaning. So we do the works together sharing our own parts. My parents also are at home all the time and they don’t go to offices. So during these days I have found them treating differently than before, they are relaxed and cool. We make varieties of snacks and have them. Nowadays we have totally avoided junk and fast foods. We are eating green vegetables, fruits and milk to keep us healthy.
We have heard the saying that health is wealth. So right now the main thing to focus on is our health. We should not panic by hearing the news about the pandemic. People think that even such developed countries of USA and Europe could not control how our country will control. So they give up all hopes and do not properly prevent themselves. And in developed countries people think their country is developed, so the government will take the responsibility and manage stuffs. For example in America, now we can see the condition that people didn’t take the disease too seriously. As a result, a great number of people were contaminated by the corona virus. This disease has no proper medicines, if anybody catches the virus, one’s treatment depends on whether the person has strong immunity or not. If the person has good immune system, there is chance of getting recovered, and if the person is already weak, one may not survive. So we should not take this virus seriously. In my opinion, it does not depend upon the country’s economic condition or government, rather it depends upon us. If we are not suffering, no problem but if we are suffering then comes the country’s economic condition or the treatment or number of hospitals we have. We all are like a forest if one leaf is also burning whole forest can burn if not taken action in time.
Grade: 7, Gems School, Dhapakhel, Lalitpur
