When I first heard about the virus, I never thought it would be as dangerous and serious as it has been. I just thought it was something more like the flu. The Coronavirus has caused the challenge of staying home more for me. I work in food services and our restaurant is currently shut down until the virus is more contained. A long with being home from work classes are now more challenging for me due to them all being online. With being home and not in the classroom environment I feel as if I have more responsibility and that it is easier to forget about an assignment and class with it all being online and just the struggle with not having a professor to ask face to face questions to. Another big challenge for me right now is just staying inside. I live with my grandparents and they are both very high risk due to medical reasons. We are the type of family who spends time together as a whole, but right now no one is able to come visit my grandparents like they normally would and its really bothering them not being able to see their children and grandchildren. Staying inside so much when you’re used to being able to freely go out whenever and wherever I feel like this is a big challenge for all of us right now.
Though there are challenges there are also opportunities that can be made from those challenges. With the stay at home order you can focus more on school rather than going out with friends and in some cases trying to balance work and school into a tight schedule. I think that most of us could come out of this with a better work ethic. This time can be used to read more, pick up a new hobby, and even get started on things you’ve been putting off for some time (in my case it would be my spring cleaning). I truly believe that it will get worse before it gets better. And I think that it can get better if we all do our part to make it better.
The story that Thomas McGarvey shared in Callings showed the theme of adaptation. McGarvey comes from a large family with 12 siblings and both of his parents in life until his fathers passing occurs early on. With the passing of his father each other the children had to go to work and give their mother half of what they earned. McGarvey was 12 when this happened, but it forced him and his siblings to deal with adapting to life without their father and life without their childhood it seems like. As a child it was probably a lot to adapt to, especially for the older siblings stepping up more. His mother had promised their father that they would all get through high school McGarvey did and wanted more, but didn't know what he wanted until a Navy recruiter offered him a dental technician spot. He said he knew right away that he was supposed to go into dentistry. He found everything about it interesting, his intuition led him to the right path. When he had told his mother that he wanted to go to school to be a dentist she was thrown off in what seemed to be a doubtful way because as he said "We had never talked like that in our family. We didn't have those kind of sights." I believe that shows adaptation too because he was adapting to his new life style with people who could see more of him than his family knew he could accomplish.
