Growing Hope

Abstract

The experience of COVID-19 is a novel experience for most of us and has brought forth existential anxieties and questions, such as that of our vulnerabilities, responsibilities, existential guilt, fear of life and death, freedom and isolation, and hope and despair. This article reflects the author’s existential journey during the lockdown of COVID-19, as the author pondered on the deeper meanings of this experience, and how hope can be found amid this crisis.