This year 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of students worldwide in their school year or start a new one into online distance learning, turning the education system upside down. Through this chaos, schools and families are helping each other to familiarize this new norm for education.

I know we students are so stressed in ways we had never imagined, and nothing about our current situation can be considered stable. However, many of us have a tendency to make excuses for ourselves about our ability to pull ourselves together to learn. We have a similar situation, but we’ve all had an adjustment period to this lifestyle, and hopefully, we've found our way to a better place mentally and physically at this point.

The world hasn’t stopped turning, it's time to learn to push ourselves in this "new normal". The pandemic should no longer be our main excuse for not getting our tasks done even if we are stress and having doubts if we can do it. The problem that we should face now is ourselves because we ourselves are our greatest enemy. We are the only ones who can help ourselves. When we are reaching for our dreams and goals in life, we would always face obstacles waiting for us to be overcome. And life doesn’t remain the same we should get used to having problems, our sacrifices, our perseverance will make use grow, to see the bigger picture, and to face the reality of the new norm.