Rediscovering family through COVID-19

The root of a criminal act, drug addiction, personality disorder, suicide, or corrupt practice stems from early life experience, encased in the basic social institution called the family. But recent developments have pushed aside the significant role of the family in our society, and the signs were clear that we needed a rethinking of the importance of our basic social group.

Then COVID-19 caught our country off guard. The virus has intruded into our complacency zones, and is teaching us enriching lessons about life. Indeed, it has only made what is essential in life glaring: our self, God, and the family. It also compels us to focus on the most basic life tasks: pray, eat, work (from home), and sleep (rest), all of which are done in the security and safety of our homes together with our little world now comprising our only social reality — the family, those near and dear to us.

This COVID-19 crisis is far from over, yet I, for one, know that the way I shall look at the family will never be the same again.

Maris C. Tanangco
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