I have been dealing with writer’s block for the past couple of weeks and I have had a horrible time coming up with things to write for my blog but walking downstairs to start this google doc I finally thought of something.
Bare with me.
I have talked about this a hundred times in my blog posts about being stuck at home. It makes sense since I started my blog during quarantine and my blog is about life and how some stuff truly sucks. I have talked about being home for a year and how I came up with all these hobbies like Crocheting, starting an Etsy shop and well so on.
The one good thing that truly has come from being stuck at home for two years with no job being broke and not being able to hang with friends is the lessons I learned and maybe others also learned.
The first one is Mental Health.
You don’t realize how bad you can get until you are there. Your brain is this big enemy that turns your stressed thoughts into overthinking for hours. You stay homes for days on days and it sounds amazing but the busy mind that you once liked that was once called being creative and smart is fucking hell. It’s hell in your own brain because you are now left with a quiet room with a loud mind. Some good some not so good. Instead of working and keeping your mind at bay your mind is everywhere and your traffic control trying to figure out how to control it. We have learned that the brain is so much worse than we think. You know they say the enemy is the people who try to tear you down and make you think bad of yourself. That’s not true. Our own brain does that for us.
The second is The Plan.
You know that plan you make for five years. That plan you make for school. The plan of how the hell you are going to chase your dreams and make them come true. We all have that plan no matter how different it may be for each other. Hell, I made a plan for after high school and for five years but I can now say that my plan started two years ago and I barely just started. This whole covid thing taught us that you cant have a stable plan because you never know what is going to happen. Don’t get me wrong there are some people’s plans who haven’t changed even with this covid thing. Shout out to them for keep doing what their doing (That makes sense). But a lot of plans changed and I have learned that a plan is never permanent, stuff happens. Plan change.
The third and last but most important thing is Treating Yourself.
That sounds pretty obvious. Even before covid, I treated myself now and then. Maybe it meant going shopping with my friends or playing games a little longer than I should because I had a crappy day. To other people treating yourself means going on vacation or spending hundreds of dollars on things which is also treating yourself. However nowadays for myself and other people. Treating ourselves is a tad bit on the cheaper side. Treating ourselves these days means spending six dollars on a coffee from Starbucks because it hits the right spot or ordering Uber Eats for a burger because yesterday you had a really bad day. Maybe treating yourself means to binge-watch shows and movies all day because you have worked for weeks chasing your dreams and you don’t want to burn yourself out and for once you just want a break. Maybe staying up late with friends building houses in Minecraft because it brings peace or Maybe treating yourself to reading a book or spending a hundred dollars on books because the reality in books is way better than the reality we live in. They all sound simple and not too much but each one is treating yourself because this reality of this world SUCKS.
These three things sound pretty obvious and maybe some people learned them even before this whole covid thing happened. But covid has taught us that it doesn’t work out the way we want and happiness means a donut. After 2 years it’s crazy how we are all still the same. Nobody knows when this whole covid thing will finally come to an end. So we must do everything in our power to make it great even when it is horrible.
