| Lockdowns are tough. It’s like the world has stopped and you feel useless. Some find ways to go about their day, but for some its not the appearance that you see.
Though how most go through with their Mental Health, their anxieties or coping through isolation. Last year was really rough and the pandemic has made short work on most creative individuals out there. Personally, it really took me out unknowingly while on isolation. There was no challenges to write something it’s the part that I need, which is to at least get out of the house for a bit of stroll. Most those days were done in the middle of the day to think and get some ideas, but when you’re stuck at home it become long naps. |
With the recent lockdown I try as much as I can not to get those ‘long naps’ in the afternoon, but most of the times it gets the best of me. The good thing also about this recent curfew is I still get to go out and this week is a little bit better than last year.
Ever since they announced the lockdown and curfew I’ve thought about what to do in those next few days as I struggle to have the will power to write. If last year has taught me anything is having the initiative. Because we can’t depend on just living in isolation drowning ourselves through watch YouTube videos or what TV or movie is streaming at the moment that we tend to lose that side of what we do, which is being productive with what we’re capable of.
The past few days haven’t been as progressive as I hoped, but while in-between errands I try to take photos whenever I’m now with more distance than within the nearby areas. A friend who lives in Sydney, Australia commented how quiet the Makati CBD is, and was aware of the news when I informed about the situation here.
It is tough for the majority and upset how many see that the pandemic had an affect on this country. I never imagined how the world was tuned upside down despite trying to find “normalcy” to this madness that’s been happening. Most Filipinos would accept the concept of the ‘New Normal.’
But based on my everyday observations majority of Filipinos would resist and bend their brand of what is their ‘normal’ and some make excuses that they’ve been used to this to not accept the change in things though in the political scene they’re crying out for a change that they themselves can’t even cross the pedestrian lanes on a straight line of politely merged in a single file to give space to a narrow walking the opposite path of the street.
Change is not about good or bad it is how you respond to it. Living in another country wasn’t the most glamorous things personally for me. But when I slowly gradually accepted that fact it was merely too late. I’m not a fast learner but if you see dedication I give it 110 % because not everyone had the same pace to adjust in this situation. But as long as you have accepted that change you’re good.
The problem lies to not really accepting it and continues to impose what you’re used to be doing everyday by bending it and pretending that you have accepted that. It is challenging to let go of those habits and it becomes second nature. I’m just grateful to have met people in South Oz and being politely honest to let them know I make mistakes and I missed that part that made me self aware at the same time mindful to appreciate the perspectives I see whenever I get the chance to be outside.
That grey cloud hovering over my head for most of my life before I left was gone. I’m no longer that mindless individual going about my day. It’s a different situation this time and what I see from the ground zero unlike back in Oz is far more challenging as it seems even in this pandemic.
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