Quarentine Days, Lock Down, Love and Me

As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are working tirelessly on understanding how the virus is transmitted, how to improve testing, what existing therapies can mitigate the effects of the disease and the most likely path to containing the disease. And I’m also a part of an India n COVID-19 research group as Data Sc. Engineer, working on the mobility report of COVID cases.

Since the month of March, I’ve been locked down. The coronavirus came to affix us in isolation. Because now there’s no chance to run away, you want to stay.

What I am trying to say here is that I learned a lot of lessons from COVID Days:

• To be productive, use DND mode and find a quiet place to complete your job.
• You can easily work from home, more effective usage of time, and less stress due to travel.
• During “normal” days, you waste a lot of time driving and traveling. That time doesn’t come back and most of the time (now we learned!) a video call is enough.
• Sleeping more has a very positive effect on your brain and you perform much better at work
• Invest time in your Hobbies. You find time to do things you normally don’t do. Like playing and recording songs with your friends remotely and publishing them on social media :-)

I have built my life around that which provides me joy and sustains me and that I generally know what I would like and the way to hunt it. after I feel sad or depleted I join up with a girlfriend, knowing her energy and our mutual exchange will fuel me. But now I can’t. after I feel uninspired I’ll stroll a busy street, or sit at a bustling cafe, or perch myself at a decent little spot by the water, always among people. But now I can’t. after I feel weak, afraid or self-doubting I travel alone and regain my sense of empowerment, capability, and over enough-ness. But now I can’t. after I feel disconnected I find a good little restaurant and sit at the bar, chatting with strangers and fascinating to feel whole again. But now I can’t. Heck, sometimes I’ll even attend the market to exchange a smile and little talk at check-out but between the masks and therefore the plexiglass this too has lost appeal.

In a nutshell, we all discovered there are far better and more efficient ways to use our time. I’m sure this quarantine taught a really important lesson to all or any folks (to me and to my family for sure): time doesn’t return, we’ve to leverage it within the best way possible, every single day.

I am sure life will slowly return to normal, but i feel our family will use the lesson learned carefully. we’ll surely find a decent compromise and things will never be the identical (luckily!).

The worst part about being locked isn’t being locked alone, but with few others.

We are different from one another, we feel different, we react differently. Just the easy fact of taking possession with someone and begin a replacement innovate the connection could be a step that leads most couples to separate.

Now, in crisis times, it is after you really must be strong enough to like. Yes, love, with all it’s letters and every one its meanings because is within the worst times when the fairytale ends and you get to grasp the worst a part of your dearest, better said, the important version, you stop pretending, you act like yourself and you hope to be loved that way.

Sometimes it is incredibly hard, but if you actually love that person, close your eyes, and take a look at to picture yourself without him/her, don’t you’re feeling the air leaving your lungs and yourself close to cry? don’t you’re feeling more broken?

Think about how lucky you’re for having the ability to be with the person you’re keen on, consider love ones that remain apart, within the ones who couldn’t go back to home, or are still working and exposing themselves day by day, or those that are apart because one among them is sick, or worst, those that are apart because one among them is already gone.

Hug, enjoy and hold on to the love that you just have. I can assure you there’s love because love doesn’t turn, it just evolves and sometimes we are able to feel it getting out of our hands and that we can feel that we don’t know what to try and do with it, we are able to feel so tired of love that we don’t want to like anymore.

How to love in quarantine times?

Just like you are doing it every day.

Why not stop loving in quarantine?

This is just a foul moment that everybody should bear and be strong.

And remember, be thankful for not being alone, and be thankful for having someone who you’re visiting spend the remainder of your life with.