[English fanfic] Why RU BL-ing me once more?!

Chapter 60: Being motivated during hard times (H)

May 8th, 2020, 7 o'clock, GMT + 7, Thailand.

At Vee's home, there was a gathering of eight young men. They consisted of Night, Mine, Vee, Mark, Gun, Bar, Praram, Nuea. They were hearing a motivational speech on an online livestream video.

"The SAR-CoV-2 virus has been causing a global crisis. It seems the epidemic has caused all progress to derail from its original trajectory. The world has changed in a certain direction and will never go back. For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic will have a terrible impact to some extent, because it has changed lives and everything we have built so far. A lot of people like you have tried so hard and then, suddenly, everything was taken away. In the past few days, we have learned a lot of lessons from saving, preparing, to predicting future trends including the worst cases, unexpected situations ... But this epidemic is like like a sudden tidal surge. When the tide recedes, we see what is beneath the surface of everyday life."

"The storm which passed recently has a certain meaning in it, and all of us will have to face it at least once in our lives. It drives us out of the unconscious state - habits, frameworks, schedules, daily life - and it encourages us to start over. Some are suffering from the loss of loved ones, others are mourning the loss of life from money, work, opportunities... What you need to understand is that even in the middle of a storm, even in sadness, even fear, or confusion, thousands of questions are asked, but not always there are answers - you are still growing day by day. You are still learning new things that you never knew. You are different than before the plague occurred and you will be a completely new version. We have gone too fast, done too much, and got disconnected from ourselves, feeling as if we are sustained by our own 'mental caress' and the alternating fear."

"What we have before is not sustainable. This means that the pandemic has come to show us how life must be changed forever. Things will not return to normal, because 'normal' is not the best state after all. All we have just experienced is the rare opportunity to learn from the silence, which is where all the real answers are found. We have the opportunity to rethink everything, finally take a long rest and return to the parts of life that are the most worthy of all."

"The consciousness of society, in general, has skyrocketed and is rising even higher. There are lessons we have learned through this pandemic season that we cannot and will never know. There are ideas that will be cultivated now and create a revolution of change. Gratitude will be reborn. Openness will be reborn. Our world will be reborn. Not because we are blind to everything that happens around us, but because we have traded so much to overcome this storm. We certainly have at least once in our lives want ourselves to change. Life is always preparing unexpected difficulties to throw them at you, the epidemic this time is one such difficulty. It forces each person to change to adapt to survive."

"The Covid-19 epidemic may cause you to take a short break, but it cannot erase your final destination, slowing down does not mean stopping. We are on an imperfect path when the destination is made up of failures, shortcomings and even breaks. So why let the fear of Covid-19 knock you down and your goals? Keep working hard. You may not arrive at your destination as desired time but will definitely arrive. Viruses can make us go slower but absolutely can not defeat us. Those who do not fall will surely learn how to become better."

Vee: "Who is on the livestream?"

Mark: "It's Alex, the person who looks very identical to Tin and has a failed attempt to date Pharm."

Vee: "Oh, the leader of the yaoi game development team?"

Mark: "Exactly."

May 8th, 2020, 8 o'clock, GMT + 7, Thailand.

At Tin's home, Tin also watched Alex's online livestream on his computer. He was astonished to see that Alex was so similar to himself from head to toe.