It was her first time living on her own and her first ‘real’ job. She met a couple co-workers. Then the lockdown came. The latest AP Virus Diary is from masayett on her ‘battle for joy.’
In this May 13, 2020, photo, a "Joy" sign hangs on the wall of Associated Press News Associate Haleluya Hadero's bedroom in Atlanta. It is often the first thing she sees when she gets up every morning.
ATLANTA — In December, I sat in a Manhattan building booming with shouts of praise and listened intently as a speaker from my church spoke about the end of the decade. A large crowd took in his excitement about the coming year, but in between sounds of piano melodies and soft taps of drums, he mentioned a word that, in a few months, I would find myself grappling with.
Despite the mysteries, I stepped out in faith. A friend who had spent time in Atlanta called to give me a list of things I needed to do once I arrived: take strolls through Spelman College, visit different churches and of course, be social. I wrote down her advice, making a mental note to attend as many events as I could in Atlanta to make the move easier.A distant relative I’d never met brought his white van to pick me up from an Atlanta airport in mid March.
A battle for joy when my father called to let me know he was laid off. A battle for joy while living isolated. A battle for joy when the closest I have gotten to the socially eventful weekends I imagined in Atlanta have been my weekly grocery trips. A battle for joy when I heard that my New York pastor, who had taught me to put my joy outside of life circumstances, had tested positive for the coronavirus.
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