Lockdown

Life On Lockdown

“Count your blessings.”

I never thought in a million years that we would ever be on a quarantine lockdown.

It’s been about 8 weeks and to be very honest, there are some days that I've gotten content with this new reality of staying home, using FaceTime, wearing face masks in public, jumping on Zoom and Google Hangouts for meetings, making Tik Tok videos and logging into House Party with friends but other days I’m, “bored in the house.”

I miss interacting with my family and friends in person. I was looking forward to traveling to Paris and London this month, which has been postponed. Within the first 5 months of this year, it has been quite the opposite of what I had envisioned.

In January, I read about what was going on and I thought, “omg that is crazy,” thinking it was only happening overseas. Then one morning, I read an article that there were multiple cases in Los Angeles County.

To this day I ask myself these very questions. How did no one see this coming and why were we not prepared for this to happen? The United States is suffering. Over 30 million people are unemployed, small businesses are closing on a weekly basis, some businesses have filed for bankruptcy, most people are in panic mode and we are seeing the death toll increase worldwide.

I’m not naive to the idea that I could be on a ventilator in a hospital fighting for my life and that I could be in a worse position. I appreciate and sympathize with frontline workers. I know that there are people in hospitals that are sick and that thousands have lost their lives.

I often sit and wonder how life after this is going to be. How are human interactions going to be, eating out at restaurants, grabbing cocktails at bars, attending major sporting and entertainment events, going to cities like Vegas and so on?

May 15th is the scheduled date that quarantine in Los Angeles plans to lift their restrictions. An extension has yet to be announced.

I find that reading about mental health articles are helpful.

The good news is that this isn’t going to go on forever.

Leave a comment below and let me know how your quarantine has been going.

While we stay in quarantine for now and have our moments of frustration, a good reminder during this lockdown is to look at the brighter-side of things and remember to count your blessings.

With Love,

Thomas