My daily routine during the lockdown

Quarantine has affected people in different ways, not all of the people have felt the same. Since none of us have experienced it the exact same way, I want to take you with me and show you the way I felt and what I did during quarantine, and this way we will see the differences and maybe any similarities that we might have encountered during, what I consider, that terrible time.

When I first found out by the news that we were having a lockdown and we would be locked in our houses with no chance of going out for at least two weeks, I was beyond happy, since as a nature I am an introvert, but little did I know that those two weeks would turn into two months and so on almost a year goes by without us having the full freedom that we used to have before the pandemic.

In the very beginning of the lockdown state, me and my family would gather and play different games, or watch old comedy series to kill time. That was when I was first introduced to the game called ‘PUBG’, which I guess many of you have heard of or even played. I had actually seen my brother play it but I never thought I would fall in love with it, and play it more than my brother had. Those days I didn’t really think much of the quarantine and the pandemic as a whole global problem, and I would just try to have fun and think about nothing, since the university was closed, we had no homework and I had said to myself that ‘oh my god this is perfect , sgate zot’.

Those days I would wake up very late, since I would spend the whole night facetiming my best friend, do absolutely nothing and just play the whole time on my phone. I had seen many people deciding to change themselves ,in a good way, during the quarantine, trying to eat healthy , working out, reading a lot and everything else, meanwhile I would just sit there and watch them do that while eating junk food, sweets and every unhealthy food possible. I was very fast getting bored with staying inside all day and that’s when I hoped (I never thought I would hope and pray for this to happen but…..quarantine) that at least we could have online classes because I really missed university and lots of homework.

For the very good luck, very soon we started having online classes and I was feeling suuuuper enthusiastic about this new way of studying that I had never tried before and I was very determined I would do better than I did while we were having physical classes. But not always things go as we plan. I tried to attend classes regularly and do the homework as soon as the professors assigned, and to be honest it started pretty well, but soon enough things were getting out of control. I couldn’t focus on anything that was being said during the classes. I lost every bit of attention and had no idea of what was happening. That’s when I knew that this lockdown was really affecting me in a very bad way, because not being able to go out for at least a walk to clear my mind, not being able to take care of the type of food I was consuming and missing my friends and other parts of the family really affected me in many bad ways.

We had early morning classes most of the time and I really love sleeping, so many days I would just get lazy and not want to attend the class but then my mother would come in my room and ‘spoil’ me with the thing I love the most, iced coffee, and then I would feel bad, like if I fail they would be very disappointed and I don’t want that, and so I would wake up and get my computer and listen to the teachers, and try to do as much as I could to go through that very tiring semester (which I did by the way ☺, and so can you! )

During this time I learned a very good lesson which I don’t think I will ever forget and that I would also want to share it with others, and hopefully it might help someone else. During this time I learned that things don’t always go as we plan and we don’t always experience or have good times only, we must go through some difficult times as well, to appreciate everything that we have and are able to do, even the small moments like going out for a walk, and that we should know how to get the best and most out of whatever situation we are in, and never feel desperate but forever grateful for every moment we get to spend with our families and friends doing what we love most.