{"id":18518,"date":"2020-09-25T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/?post_type=post&p=18518"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:30:17","slug":"lockdown-diaries-navya-choudhary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/lockdown-diaries-navya-choudhary","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Diaries Nominee#26- Lockdown Diaries: Either\u200c \u200cof\u200c \u200cthe\u200c \u200cTwo:\u200c \u200cLockdown\u200c \u200cDiaries\u200c By Navya Choudhary"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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I am not sure whether it\u2019s completely true or not but I somewhat in few circumstances believed that there are two sides of a coin, things, people or circumstances can be categorized in either of the two. But now I am questioning my supposed belief. I doubt that life is this easy, people and situations are this easy to be just true or false, black and white, right or wrong. It\u2019s a question that since the moment slapped me has left its mark on my face. It\u2019s something I have pondered upon from a while now. And why am I sharing this? Well, it\u2019s all because of this Lockdown.<\/p>\n

When Lockdown was imposed in India, like many I was tense due to various things going not according to my plans. My life was disrupted; regular things suddenly came to a halt. I\u2019m a student primarily and all of a sudden from having no time to eat was having nothing to do at all. It was like a huge, long pause with immense silence has filled my life without me knowing for how long.<\/p>\n

I was at home for three days to celebrate a festival and was to return back to Delhi for my studies and exams. So I came home with a small bag consisting of my phone, power bank, a charger, some money and my earphone. This was that one thing I thought I have accomplished, packing in 5 minutes and that also for three days. I was really proud of it which later became something I was most irritated and disappointed about. Whenever I use to criticize this whole situation of mine in lockdown with other problems, my belongings not belonging to me were at top. And everybody literally pitied me because I wasn\u2019t able to function normally. I mean, I am writing this in my phone.<\/p>\n

It was a regular day of my second month in lockdown that was I successfully wasting like previous others, then I was at my aangan (yard) and accidentally for once I looked up away, from my phone\u2019s screen and saw something beautiful. That sight of dusk amazed me. For once I was clear amidst this whole chaos, what I am going to do next at that very moment. I rushed towards my room, grabbed my book, and sat in aangan to read. After few peaceful pages, I shut my book and just sat there. It was a beautiful sunset. It was so beautiful that nothing else I was thinking of. That moment was something so strong and effective that my perspective changed. My life changed.<\/p>\n

Next thing I was doing was planning my daily routine and laying out another plan, for my studies (without books). After that I studied my preparatory exam\u2019s syllabus whole and it\u2019s on a revision stage, I did two internships where I learned and made friends whom I never even met before, I am almost about to complete my fellowship that I was about to drop, reconnected with my distant friends, planned, compered and executed an e-farewell and now I am admin of three Instagram pages and reading out books from my list.<\/p>\n

I am not able to criticize this lockdown anymore and put it in a box of it\u2019s being a bane or a boon for me. It\u2019s something that proved to be a blessing in disguise, giving me multiple opportunities and set backs at the same time. Letting me question whether anything is either of the two<\/p>\n

ReachIvy.com organized an online blog\/vlog competition<\/a> to provide people the unique opportunity to share their lockdown stories using their creativity. The competition met with a fantastic response from participants across 4 continents, and our jury has handpicked the Top 50 entries from them for the Popular Choice Award 2020!<\/p>\n

The above entry has been submitted by Navya Choudhary from Delhi, India. She is a 22 year old student of Delhi University. Kudos to Navya for this beautiful piece!<\/p>\n

Show your support and help Navya win the contest by liking this blog post on all ReachIvy.com’s social media platforms!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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