Ebullience: Where do people find joy in times of hardships?

288 days ago, since our country were being placed into total locked down and experienced the Enhanced Community Quarantine to avoid the wide-spread of this well-known virus, the Corona Virus which begun in Wuhan, China and being spread in the whole world that causes losing the lives of millions of people worldwide.

As we are experiencing the hardships brought by this pandemic, we Filipinos find our way to give joy and to have joy in our lives especially as we celebrate this year's Christmas. It is now prohibited to have gatherings due to the threat of the virus.

How do you find "JOY" these days?

Yes! there is a pandemic, but for me, there will always be joy no matter what the circumstances are. It will always be on how we will see the situations and how we view the current happenings. It is hard to enjoy knowing that this year is full of sadness and sacrifices, lots of circumstances and obstacles that is needed to face, but looking at the bright side, we are near to celebrate the end of this year which means we succeeded in every day that we need to accomplish.

Joy is everywhere, it will depend on how you will view the situations.

-Being grateful the we reached December 29,2020

-Being grateful that we wakes up every morning

-Being grateful that we are able to eat 3 times a day

-Being grateful that we are safe everyday

-Being grateful that I'm still living

are the simple things that give joy in my life. Being grateful at everything that you have can give joy in your hearts and can influence people that surrounds you the positivity that you have. There's no reason to be sad and let your heart full of anger because knowing that we still have tomorrow, it simply means that we need to continue our lives and never give up. No matter how difficult our life is, we still need to be thankful that we are able to reach today because not everyone are given a chance to have tomorrow and needed to stay with yesterday.

Joy is in our hearts, we just need to appreciate things in order for it to work. Spread positivity, then joy will take over. In this year's Christmas, we still can share the joy we have, because innovations are born to have our ways in times of difficulties. As we are going to welcome the new year, we simply need to be thankful because it is a blessing given to us. We just need to leave behind all the bad things that happened and start a new life because new year will be our new beginning.

Being positive costs no one's lives but being negative costs the chances that you will miss.

Being with my family as we celebrate Christmas and as we are going to welcome the new year is enough reason for me to be joyful and grateful on what I have now.