I went out to get groceries today. Don’t worry, I wore my mask and stood 6 feet away from others. While walking, I thought to myself, “why am I okay with staying indoors for so long?”
Sure, I missed the outside but I wasn’t so desperate to leave the house.
It’s comfort.
At home, I have all that I need to live a normal life. There’s my laptop which allowed me to work, multiple social media platforms for me to connect with people, food to keep me alive, and my ps4 in case I want to play some games.
I’m so privileged to have those things to keep this quarantine a little better.
If I was living in a place where there’s constant fighting, lack of sanitation, no form of entertainment, I don’t think I’ll be sane. But that’s how many people are living their daily lives.
So, even when I want to say, “how hard can it be for you to just stay home?”, I understand and empathize with those who simply can’t do that.
Being away from home is the getaway some of us needed to keep away from going insane.
We need a distraction from our friends because home is just too negative.
I made a number of friends on Reddit and we chatted quite a bit during this pandemic. They help keep me company as I work from home. There’s really a lot of people who hate staying at home.
They all have their reasons and I feel for them.
When the home you’re living in isn’t really your home, quarantine is a nightmare.
However, we also need to kill of this pandemic. The longer the virus remains uncontained, the longer we will need to stay indoors and away from people.
I’m sorry if you have to go through that nightmare of suffering at home.
But we can survive this. No matter how hard it is, we will get through it.
We have to.
If we don’t, all the frontliners risked their lives for nothing.
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Previously Published on Medium
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