Two years of quarantine

Swaid Sameh Purno
3 min readJun 17, 2020

When the whole world is shut down for the recent Corona epidemic, people have been quarantined in their homes for months. And this has led to strife, mental depression and much more deterioration.

We’ve been getting so troubled in these days, but a girl named Anna Frank has been hiding in a secret attic of an office for about 761 days. And total of 8 people were hiding in that small 450 square feet place for about 25 months. There they had to do all the fundamental activities such as slumbering, mild dining, cliset etc. They had to survive in fright all the time because their only offence was that they were Jews. Nazi forces and the Gestapo forageing the city, bombing the city, and And they will die if caught. It was like seeing a bomb-ravaged city outside then.

Without epistle, there was no sophisticated communication system like ours cause it was 1940. Then this letter also became difficult. The girl spent this long time alone with a diary called “Kitty”. The girl was then in the fifth grade that’s mean 15 years old young lady. In the diary she wrote freely & easlyy about his family & all her secrets.

She wrote:-

“omdat papier meer geduld heeft dan mensen.”

“Because paper has more endurance then people”

The girl then realized that paper has more patience than humans. Paper knows how to respect people so she used to write everything to paper. The girl was very lonely, a little nimble and cunning, so she couldn’t share everything with everyone.

But peace did not come, they were all seized for a traitor after 2 years of hiding. Everyone died except their father. The girl and her older sister died of typhus. And their mother died of starvation. Even after all this, the girl did not have any grief or anger towards mankind. Rather she loved everyone. If you read some of her sentences which she wrote, your mentality will also change.

“I can shake off everything as l write, my sorrows, disappear, my courage is reborn.”

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“I Don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

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“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

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“In the long run, the sharpest weapin of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

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“Whoever is Happy will make other’s happy.”

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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

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“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

If you wanna read the softcopy (PDF) of the book, then frankly contact with me.

sameh.purno1998@gmail.com

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Swaid Sameh Purno

Guest lecturer — Department of English at Luminous University Admission Coaching. BBA, department of Management at University of Dhaka. Lives in Dhaka, Bangel