Right before the lockdown: Reflection I live an hour away from my university. An hour away only when we were lucky enough to not get stuck in a traffic jam, which tends to happen really often as everyone goes to the city to work. Once I have got off the bus, I had to walk through two bridges to get to the campus. Those bridges had been there for decades and each passing year they seem to move more with the wind. Many are really concern that one day the bridge will simply blow away, not to mention the public liability that that would imply. So, as I was saying, it really takes more than an hour and half because I also happen to study in the law faculty which is placed in the other corner of the campus. As you can imagine, it used to be my main complain at the beginning. Now, it amazed me how blind I was sometimes to not be able to appreciate the fact that I could move and breath fresh air first thing in the morning. I also miss the classmates very much, the teachers, the library. Even though we are all keeping up with face time and online classes, it really is not as meaningful. I remember the class I had right after the lockdown was ordained. It was the bankruptcy’s subject class. I remember the teacher talking about a new European Directive that had to be transposed this year, the one they have just said that won’t be that necessary to transpose because most companies won’t even need a restructuration of their debts but rather a total liquidation. And it’s so weird how later that day I was talking to my best friend about what we were going to do that weekend. We were pretty sure we could go hiking trail with my dog. So right now I am making conscious efforts on not making the same mistakes: I try to appreciate the enormous luck I have that nor my family or friends have been affected by the virus, the opportunity to learn new things each day, to be able to move, to read... This situation, as awful as it is, has given me insights about how important it is, not really what we have or have not, but rather, what we are able to appreciate and love about our current circumstances.