A ceremony, robe, yellow scarf, and the notorious square cap, some speeches about progress and the ripened fruit of labor during the past 4 years — I heard, saw, and had them all.
So why then am I not really overjoyed and happy that is all over?
Because it isn't. This chapter has not yet concluded for two simple reasons. And they're both exams.
Three months since I had been diagnosed with the infamous Covid-19, two weeks later I would be released on the premise that "studies show that after two weeks of having the illness and the symptoms greatly improve" I am no longer contagious; therefore, I count as recovered.
A word which many would consider it... Well, positively.
Not in 2020.
It's during times like this when you really wish you're not positive. Especially if it's about a certain test of a certain novel disease that assaulted a certain world...
This blog post is about an IRL matter. Feel free to ignore it should it not be of interest.
I've suddenly awoken at 2 A.M. with one of the most disturbing realisation: I had high temperature (38.5°C / 101.3°F). Given the fact that my coughing symptom was getting worse day by day, I dread to think that I may have Covid-19.
"I will be consumed, returned into the earth Only passing through, nothing left to hold on to Like the thaw against the snow, into the undertow Cut the chord and cast me out Cast me out (...) I swear I will not look back, as I return into the black" — Memento Mori
10/01/1978 – 06/28/2016
C.o.D.: Malignant Breast Cancer
I swear I will not dare waver
As I pass away into the dark, lost forever.
And I shall accept there was no sense,
And I shall accept: I am now past tense.
Five Years ago.
Tom Searle (from the Architects metal core band)
10/01/1987 – 08/20/2016
Rest In Peace.
C.o.D.: Malignant Skin Cancer
"I will be consumed, returned into the earth
Only passing through, nothing left to hold on to
Like the thaw against the snow, into the undertow
Cut the chord and cast me out
Cast me out
(...)
I swear I will not look back, as I return into the black"
— Memento Mori