My friend and I were chilling with two other girls we grew up with in the same neighbourhood. This hardly happens and I am happy. I hardly go out and the fresh air feels so good. Did it really have to take someone to get me out of the house? Well, it seems that’s the case, since I have not been out since then.
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I am sharing my experience as open awareness especially for the youth in rural communities where wearing a mask is still treated like a rumour. It’s real! We are so far gone into the pandemic that a time where we lived without a mask is a fantasy. It is hard to imagine a life without one even with the vaccines having arrived in South Africa.
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From a very young age, I was always in awe with our country and its beauty, land, diversity, and culture – and as cliché as that sounds, that passion and love for my country has guided me. From my high school days, I have been an avid accounting geek and that continued with me until I finished school, I always dreamed of being this “big city” accountant and living this corporate world life.
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We are now living in a world where respect for women has become a thing of the past. A world where beating up a woman has become a norm. A world where ‘getting away with murdering women’ has become the order of the day. A world where a husband beats up his wife to the point of leaving permanent scars. A world where a son rapes his sister, and nothing is done about it.
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High school is arguably a beautiful place. Many lifetime friendships are conceived there, formed, and nurtured only to be separated after matric and rekindled on social media later on in life. For some, high school is horrible, a place of the devil. Some don’t even make it out. However handsome or horrid the place can be, it does possess a ubiquitous common denominator that is education.
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‘I’m so proud of you’, were words I heard from my parents consistently and sincerely over the four years that I spent at Wits University. Being the first person with my surname to attend university was a huge achievement for both myself and my family.
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Lockdown has been a very challenging time for all everyone. My time during lockdown has been very challenging as well. Growing up, I honestly felt like I have been living in the dinosaur age regarding technology and social media. It has only been this year, my first year, where I have full access to internet and social media.
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I don’t know why, but I was the last person to find out that I wasn’t okay. I remember my psychiatrist asking “why are you here?”, I answered “I don’t know”. Even on a hospital bed, it still didn’t hit me that I was indeed sick. That’s the thing about mental illnesses, you don’t see blood coming out of a wound, you don’t feel a burning sensation or inflammation anywhere on your body. Really guys! Do you know when you are not coping?
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Many a time, it is said that it is very important to know one’s identity which may be on the basis of economic classes, cultural heritage and political views, just to mention a few. These identities are based on the expectations of society and what they see as fit.
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Looking at everything happening in South Africa due to COVID-19, one can begin to wonder as to how those suffering with depression and anxiety are coping with everything. There are a lot of uncertainties around us.
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