Ever since I lost my father to Covid in May 2021, I take Ratan Tata's words of "survival is the only profit" as the guiding principle of life. Covid taught us two things very well - who is your family and who are your real friends? While living in the Covid ward of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) at Patna to attend to my ailing father, a 25-year-old woman, an engineer from Siwan, had been changing shifts with her twin sister to attend to their father, who survived the virus. While leaving the hospital, a day before I lost my father, she tried to comfort me by saying, "If the family does not come forward in these times, who else will or should. Covid restored family values". One could not have agreed more.