According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, adversity is defined as “a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty.” In the context of COVID-19, we have a physical illness affecting a large number of lives, but even more individuals with novel mental and emotional strains that are overwhelming and difficult for most experiencing them. Though these strains can stem from different places including fear of physical illness, fear of losing economic well-being, isolation, etc., the adversity of the pandemic is a common emotional trauma among everyone. As someone who has struggled with mental illness for my entire life, the pandemic has exacerbated a deep-rooted fear that life can change in an instant. As Dr. Kyle Harper, a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at the University of Oklahoma, pointed out, it takes a large amount of chance for an event like this to occur. What are the odds that a virus has mutations that allow it to transmit to humans in the exact animal that was going to be consumed by humans at that exact time? One mutation caused the world to drastically change, altering the lives of every single person. The world is vulnerable, and this generates an anxiety in me that is unmatched.