Its 1st of July, 2020 and the world is still in the havoc of corona virus. We just completed the first half of 2020 and it literally felt like a blink of an eye. If we see carefully, 2020 has been the dawn of realization for all of us so far. It is when we learnt that in the end all you have is yourself; we learnt is our busy schedule that has kept us going through life; we realized that home was most of ours halt that we went on searching for and the most important thing we realized that reconnecting to ourselves was the only thing needed for progress. First few months of quarantine felt like a havoc; both inside and outside. Nobody knows where this is and where we stand right now. This has been a miserable mess but I had a merry time rediscovering paths to peace within while not finding it outside.
Keeping yourself hydrated, trying different kadhas (Indian word for a healthy potion made of natural ingredients), meditating and yoga was all that we could do but if we look on the other side there is so much more left undiscovered. It was just another day in my life where I tried working out but couldn’t. I am reading a book named “A new Thinking” by Dagogo Altraide who is creator of a very famous YouTube channel “ColdFusion”. I’m so pleased with the history of inventions and technologies that came to my knowledge after I started reading this. I take entertainment breaks for watching The Big Bang theory and again I very much adore Sheldon’s character. He is a guy (a theoretical physicist to be precise) who literally has a roommate agreement with his flat mate that if they were attacked by zombies and one of them turned into one, he would not kill the other one. Fascinating right?
We also spend our day playing with the new born puppies. They are marvel! We make some time for baking our favorite cookies and muffins. Its crazy how we managed to discover so many fun activities to divide our day into. Casual philosophy sessions with grandparents, dismantling laptops to clean and explore, redecorating the rooms and night time diary writing for me. These days will always be a bookmark in the book of my journey.
Playing cricket with my cousins has also kept me going on the boring days. Those kiddos fight over captaincy but always pack up wishing each other saying “Well played”. Teaching Science to my sisters has also been a part of my weekly chores. I get nostalgic on reading formulas and facts that I have already left back. My online classes are keeping me sane with my studies these days and working on final year projects again triggers team work in me that used to be triggered while planning mass bunks😉. Well, gone are the days. We tag each other on Instagram rather than actually running into each other.
I am sitting on the corner of my bed with laptop on my lap writing about my quarantine diary and hoping that there must be something that has kept you guys going in this period of self-isolation and self-discovery. I would love to know about that amazing movie or a web series that you finished watching, the game that you love playing or a book that became your companion or anything that has been holding you up during this crazy time. It is still a long way to go and I have 128 gb of space left.
PRESENT DAY:
All these things felt like actually reuniting with myself and my family. The quarantine was a break for all of us we did not know we needed. We managed our days so well, learnt and realized lots of things. Kudos to all my readers out there for staying healthy and strong during these times of chaos. Let us pause and remember those good old days and mention some of your quarantine stories in the comment section. Lets make this a nostalgic post!
My quarantine gallery:
In pandemic, i have also figure out lot of things but never try to do it😛.
But in that time I’ve spent a lot and lot time with family as usual but almost 70% of my day was just going through sleep 😴. Ton of sleep.
Just miss that sleep 😅
New personalities were unlocked, breaking rules and sneaking out in the pandemic, ate a lot, and became Gordon Ramsay of my home by judging new recipes made by sisters and not appreciating them, eSports helped a lot to realise actual physical strength and pushed me to do some quarantine work out.
There were a lot of useful things to learn in those days but never really done, anyways no regrets, yes it was a good time. Wish it come back on exams every semester✌💛
Learning something new on internet was my daily activity during pandemic. For example reading blogs, posts
I am not a good reader or else I can say I hate reading but still I improved my reading ability and vocabulary through browsing.
I learnt many things things and practicing it daily , for example (coding, presentation making and excel sheet).
In pandemic we spended our most valuable time with our parents and learnt many things through their experience.
Obviously pandemic was the worst experience in everybody’s life, we restricted ourselves in our home & faced multiple challenges.
But still memorable tho 🙂
If you read till here …. Thanks for reading my comment
And big thanks to unscrambled.me for reminding this big vacation (pandemic)
And how rememberable it was… Thanks!!!!!!
In Pandemic…I spent many time with my family and friends…we used to play many games…not only that…but we used to cook dinner on the stove…i.e chula… That Pandemic Helped Us in making our bonds more and more stronger.
this was so well put together :))
Those were the days! I miss that phase so much because it helped me to learn so much new extracurricular activities and I tried that later on. Also it helped me to come out from my comfort zone, “mentally” i would say. I miss those days….. I hope i can feel that kind of nostalgia again in future.
This quarantine days oh!! Learnt and gained a lot
Not just in case of health but the relationship with the family grow stronger. Building up of emotions knowledge health is an ultimate glimpse of what these days taught ❤