Are you also struggling to find some good get well soon messages for your ailing family members, relatives, friends, colleagues, and loved ones?
You are not alone. Sometimes we all stumble for appropriate get-well-soon wishes for our sick relatives and friends.
This may happen if someone suddenly informs us over the phone, email, or chat about their or someone else’s illnesses.
Moreover, it is common to hear about rising Covid-19 cases these days. Even people with the most secure office and home spaces like Presidents and Prime Ministers are testing positive for the Covid-19 virus.
So it’s no surprise if we hear about a Covid-19 infection in our immediate family, relatives, and friend circles.
In such cases, we often send them “get well soon messages” and good wishes for a speedy recovery.
However, sometimes we struggle to find a suitable “get well soon message”. To make matters easy and for an easy reference, we have compiled some get well soon messages and their importance.
Scroll down to learn more about them.
Get Well Soon Messages for Corona Patients
People do get anxious and face difficulties in framing a get well soon message for their near and dear ones. It all depends upon the nature of their relationship and circumstances.
While writing a get-well-soon message, one must also keep in mind the high-low power distance scenarios. Given below is an example of a get well soon message for a high power distance scenario.
Respected Sir, I am sorry to hear that you have tested positive for Covid-19. Please take all necessary precautions and medications with adequate rest. I pray for your speedy recovery from this illness.
Get Well Soon Messages for Friend
Friendships and kinships generally come under the low power distance category.
It means that people do not face many problems in communicating their feelings with their friends and kins. Even a little bit of awkwardness is no problem if it can warm up the situation.
If you are writing a get well soon message for your friend or cousin, you may always begin by saying that you feel sad and sorry to hear that they have tested positive for the virus.
This, you can say in all other situations as well. But a little bit of personal customization will definitely bring some freshness. Here are a few simple get well soon messages for friends.
Hello Sam! (or you can use some non-formal expressions that you generally use in your case). I am sorry to hear that you have tested positive for covid-19. Do take all necessary precautions and medications with adequate rest. I pray that you get well soon. I am sure that you shall be back to health and happiness soon.
Hello Sam! I just heard that you have tested positive for the covid-19. Take all necessary precautions and rest. I pray for your speedy recovery. I am sure that you will be back to health and happiness soon.
Get Well Soon Message for Covid infected Relatives
Depending upon the different cultures, relatives can come under both high and low power distance scenarios.
Generally in low power distance cultures like Europe, the Americas, and Australias, one is more frank and open with their relatives but in many Indian and oriental societies, one is supposed to show respect to their relatives.
Many Hindus even kneel and touch the feet of their relatives, some even wash them. Again, it’s context-based, and no hard and fast rule can be made. So frame your message accordingly. If you are not sure, then be formal and terse.
Dear Uncle/Aunt. I am sorry to hear that you have tested positive for Covid-19. I pray for your speedy recovery. Please take good care of yourself.
Get Well Soon Message for Teachers
Since the relationship between teachers and students is generally based on the high distance power structure in which the student is expected to show respect to the teacher, your condolence note should be a little bit formal to be on the safe side.
Respected Sir/Ma’am (or Dear Mr./Ms./Mrs. so and so). I am sorry to hear that you have tested positive for Covid-19. I pray for your quick recovery.
Get Well Soon Message to Superiors
At times one may be required to write get well soon wishes to their boss or superiors. Such relationships are often based on a high power distance culture in which superiors expect respect from their subordinates.
So the get well soon message, in this case, needs to be tilted heavily towards the positive side of the formality scale. Be careful while giving them any suggestions. Because not all seniors love to hear ‘to do lectures’ from their juniors.
You may, however, gently ask them if you could be of any help to them. But brace for the situation should they call you to their place.
Respected sir/ma’am (or Dear Mr./Ms./Mrs. so and so). I am sorry to hear that you have tested positive for Covid-19. I wish for your speedy recovery and pray for your long and healthy life. Do inform me if I can be of any assistance. Kindly take care of yourself and get well soon.
Yours sincerely, (your name)
Importance of Get Well Soon Messages
This brief mental strain to say a few words of comfort when suddenly faced with a sick person is not something that is unique with Covid-19 but one faces such issues in other maladies as well.
People often get confused especially in a disease like Covid in which there is no known medication so far except going into complete isolation.
This anxiety is compounded by the fact that one cannot pay a physical visit to the sick person given Covid-19 is a highly communicable disease.
Many a time, if you are in an online session or conference, then you tend to wait for someone else to take the initiative first. And if everyone thinks like that then the resulting silence results in an unimaginable awkwardness.
After this happened with me a few times, I drafted some ‘Get well soon wishes’ after taking motivations from others and I would love to share them with you.
If you ever face any difficulty in offering some good wishes to your near and dear ones who are infected with covid-19 or any other illness, you may take inspiration from these ones and supplement them with your own personal prayers and Duas.
Prayers and Get Well Soon Messages
In all of the above-mentioned cases, a believer may also pray for the speedy recovery of the ailing person.
In Islamic traditions, people recite Surah Fatiha before making Dua’ for the healing of the infected person.
Dua’s have great healing powers especially if they come from a pure heart. So don’t hesitate to sincerely make one for your loved and dear ones.
Pray to the Almighty God in your own words for the easy recovery of the infected person.
May God be merciful on you and may he grant you ease from all pain and sufferings of this life and the next.
If the intended beneficiary is a disbeliever, one can also add the following lines.
May God guide you to the righteousness and forgive your mistakes.
Visiting Sick Person is a Prophetic Tradition
Visiting sick persons, comforting them, and making Dua for them are the traditions of Prophets of God (peace be upon them all).
Narrated Al-Bara’ bin ‘Azib (r): Allah’s Apostle (s) ordered us to do seven things and forbade us to do the other seven. He ordered us to follow the funeral procession, visit the sick, accept invitations, help the oppressed, fulfill the oaths, return the greeting and reply to the sneezer: (saying, “May Allah be merciful on you,” provided the sneezer says, “All the praises are for Allah,”).
And he forbade us to use silver utensils and dishes and wear golden rings, silk (clothes), Dibaj (pure silk cloth), Qissi, and Istabraq (two kinds of silk cloths).
Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 331
Holy Quran and Sahih Hadiths contain many powerful duas for the sick. Do read them authentic sources and try to learn them by heart. By doing so, you will certainly feel some positive vibes around you when you recite them.
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Conclusion
In conclusion, sending a suitable ‘get well soon message’ to a sick person is a good way not only to make them feel comfortable but also to strengthen our relationships.
By visiting and comforting an ailing person, we get rewards and blessings from the Almighty. Besides, doing so is the tradition of Prophets.
In situations like Covid and other communicable diseases when we cannot visit the infected person, we should at least send them a good “get well soon message”.
It gives the addressee ease and mental satisfaction which helps them in speedy recovery.
Finally, we must also be careful in wording our “get well soon messages” depending on the nature of our relationship with the intended beneficiary.
We should especially keep in mind the power distance and cultural sensitivities.
