After acceptance of the situation I started to know better opportunities of this wonderful time. I finally had time to do all things that I was postponing for years.
Firstly I organized nice routine, cause it made me feel calmer and happier. In this routine I created a few zones, each one was responsible for some sphere of my self improvement. One zone was dedicated to physical development, I chose a few activities – yoga (for mental health and flexibility), running (kind of cardio) and workouts. Physical activity was super important for my good mood during strongest part of quarantine. Even if I didn’t want to do anything I went and began to do exercises or postures from yoga and my mood trough some time was getting better. As a bonus I got great flexibility and nice physical shape.
Another important zone for me became conversation. I divided it on two parts – communication in real life and communication in digital space. First one was just with my flatmates. From spontaneous small talks in morning to nice common branches and evenings of board games and movie nights, all this supported me a lot! Yes, maybe sometimes I was irritated with absence of opportunity to be alone, but in general it’s good always to have somebody alive around you. What about my digital conversation, I had talks with dozens of old friends, just one per night. I’m grateful to quarantine for this opportunity to refresh some old connections and to firm actual ones. We played games, watched movies, drank wine and made a lot of gossips of course. I’m sure online communication never replace real one, but in conditions of lockdown it helps me feel support and support my friends. And yea, zoom parties it’s fun.
Third part of my quarantine routine was creativity. Here I highlight work creativity and for my own. For my school I was creating different videos and making interesting lessons of Russian language. Sometimes I involved my flatmates, cause to do something together is always real fun. Also I found some space for my creativity in writing articles for this blog. What about my own need in creativity and art, I had activities almost in all spheres of art. Firstly I finally had enough time for drawing. Before I draw just in school for kids. In quarantine I started realize all my old ideas and thoughts, tried new styles of drawing. In connection with this I opened new my passion – artistic makeup. Occasionally before lockdown I bought a lot of stuff for bright unusual makeup and now I had opportunity to practice a lot. As a result to the end of strict quarantine I learnt how to do really impressive things. Also I love to dance, and I missed it a lot. So I bought intensive course of modern dance online. Now I’m more than prepared for after quarantine parties. And last part of my creativity stuff was music. I adore sing and when my flatmate bought ukulele I didn’t think long. Of course to sing with some instrument it’s always more impressive. So I started to learn new instrument. Also I’m a passionate cook. In quarantine I tried a lot of new recipes, especially cakes. Every week (or more often hahah) I baked new cake, and it was such pleasure. In all this cases, with makeup, or dancing, or playing ukulele the same was one thing – it was something new for me, so it was stimulating dopamine in my brain and making me happier. I’m really enjoying process of doing artistic activity, so it was exactly what I need in these hard times.
Last part of my quarantine routine connected with my intellectual development. During this lockdown I read more books than for last year. I think all of you have to read list. So mine became so shorter finally. Also I discovered a few new favorite authors, I don’t know when I would read it if not this situation. I’m really interested in studying of Polish culture and mentality so I began my personal marathon of classic of Polish movies. And I was pleasantly impressed with quality and deepness of it.
So I can conclude that quarantine gave me a lot of unique gifts and impressions. Of course it’s also result of my personal work, but the opportunity to focus on it is important as well. I hope that most of you found in yourselves this light side of quarantine.