HOW I AM SURVIVING QUARANTINE

With covid-19 everyone around are forced to shut themselves inside their house making it difficult to get in contact with your friends, family or even colleague and in this experience I have come out no different, confined to a limited space can be uncomfortable, after few day it can really start you to affect you mentally and emotionally, this experience wasn’t very different for me but staying with my family made it easier as a journey, I would be lying if I said I got used to it quickly, it took me more than a month to get used to the entire situation and here’s how I am surviving quarantine.

First things first with all this negativity around creating positive energy is a must and I was able to do this with constant gratefulness and gratitude towards God, which really helped me to be more hopeful. Throughout the quarantine I personally have grown towards spirituality I have read the book and listened to the audio book of Bhagvat Gita which has made me realize true reason of our existence.

Second thing that helped go through is sports, having a nice open terrace really gives you an advantage, every evening I would come to the terrace along with my brother, mom and two other kids from our apartment and play badminton, in 3 months I had learned how to play badminton to an extent that I can even manage to play with my left hand. Sometimes I just spending time on the terrace and watching the sun go down and listening to your favorite playlist which can be so relaxing and calming. In this period I have also made quarantine friend not human being to be particular they are cats, who wander around our apartment and ever since the lock-down has started I have been feeding them milk everyday.

Spending most of my time indoors, then board game or a card game is must, I have so learned so many different card games (except poker) to a point I have come to master them, this is also the time when most of family interaction has happened, which gave so much emotional support and of course house chores keeps me busy almost half a day and while doing this I picked up some new skills like cooking, chopping, frying, painting, gardening, learning about new ingredients and experiment with it.

By then end of three months I leaned more towards yoga, throughout my life I have experimented with different fitness routine, out of all of them yoga is the way to go. On a recent note my online classes have restarted with more enthusiasm and work which keeps be busy for an entire week, which can be really exhausting sometimes and very recently I have started gardening it is fun and looking forward to making a complete terrace garden.

Thank you all for reading through the end I just want to say one last thing for everyone who were able to survive this unwelcomed change, for people who had to do this alone or if you were/ are stuck somewhere and couldn’t get back to your family, home or to your loved ones, for people who have lost someone dear in this pandemic, I am sorry I am truly sorry that you had to go through something like this but I am also grateful and glad that you were strong through these times it takes a lot of courage and mental stability to hold yourself together is such situation and now you know you are way more capable than you think, and it is okay if you hardly getting through the situation that you might be facing but that also take a lot of willingness, cause you can’t get through if you are not willing to get past it.