<aside> 💭 Prompt: Now seems like a good time to check in with how we're holding up emotionally. A poke around the ol' noggin to see what the weather's like.
Write about your current mental landscape. Feel like you’re on an emotional trampoline? Stoic and steely-eyed? Irrationally breaking into song every time you hear the word “mask”?
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By Viya Qu
It's my first time actually completely literally isolating by myself. I found myself surprisingly enjoying my alone time, but I also recognize I need that real human connection occasionally. I need to share my thought with someone when I want to, I want to share a meal and just see the joy of eating food together, I miss my time in nature with loved ones.
I somehow get used to feeling the connection via video and calls. So far, I'm quite chill and stable emotionally.
I've been working and learning so much that I lost sense of time.
By Masha Safina
Before COVID i was constantly worrying about things. Funny (~not~) how most of the stuff doesn't matter (now I realize it).
Who knew you can just go and do: buy that travel ticket, just take that damn vacation finally, go to that restaurant which is right across the street and is "soooo good" but you never went because it's so close and you can go any time.
Turns out you can't do things "any time" - human time is finite and crazy 💩happens!
I am in a very privileged position: I have a home, I have a job, I am not alone. So I am just sitting put and appreciating all that.
I'd describe my mental state as from mild panic to realism chill.
-- Listening to NPR makes me an alert dog (they get the record for the most COVID mentions per minute)
-- Talking to other humans makes me more "relaxed" and closer to "normal life"