Coronavirus quarantine boring you out of your mind? Lucky you
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Embrace boredom. It’s good for you.
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In uncertain times, it’s natural to feel troubled, anxious, scared and even bored. After all, you’re stuck inside staring at the same walls day in and day out and these extraordinary circumstances take a toll. I can’t blame you if your eyes droop and your head swims with the repetition of it all. I’ll even laugh right along with you as you change from “day pajamas” to your “night pajamas.”
But I would like to offer another perspective on boredom, and a promise: I will not complain about being bored during this coronavirus quarantine, no matter how many months the lockdown drags on. The way I see it, being bored is a luxury.
Bored means I’m healthy, free of symptoms of disease and breathing easily — unlike my cousin, who said she felt the pressure around her neck like “being strangled” and on her chest like “someone was trying to break into my rib cage … and pull my lungs out.”
Bored means I’m not seeing friends in person, or feeling the closeness of physical affection because I’m social distancing and washing my hands, acts that keep everyone safe.
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Bored means my stomach isn’t knotted tight with worry over a friend or family member hospitalized with COVID-19, like hundreds of thousands of families are experiencing right now, helpless to comfort or Scp Certification exams heal.
Bored means I’m not grieving the loss of a loved one, like one friend with two hospitalized parents. Her father died, her mother lived. And now her family must mourn alone.
Bored means I’m not increasing my own risk of exposure in overworked, undersupplied hospitals or on the front lines of grocery stores, shipping warehouses, package or food delivery routes and all the other essential businesses that keep people fed and in supply of basic needs.