What have you lost while staying inside?

[petra]

A commiseration post for today. Feel free to skip it if you're not in the mood for negativity.

Having to stay inside means we're all losing things we once had, or could have had. What have you lost to the forces that make you stay inside? How do you deal with the grief surrounding those losses?

Comments

[althea_valara]

I'm a homebody, so I rarely left the house even before this happened. I feel it's not affecting me too much.

But, I had been talking with my therapist about getting out more, and had gone to a meeting of the stitch club at our local library. I had a good time, and was looking forward to going to it again, but then the library closed. The Stitch Club was also going to have a yarn swap, and I had been looking forward to getting more yarn (my stash is getting low) so am missing that, too. I had also been signed up for a class at the library on a service called Lynda, which is a skills-building... app? website? I'm not sure which it is. Obviously that was cancelled as well.

I'm doing fine without these things because I had just barely started getting into them, but yeah, it IS a loss. Probably the weirdest thing right now is that my therapy sessions are by phone now.

I also had had tentative plans to get together with a friend this month for a knitting lesson, but we can't do that now. Sad.

[desireearmfeldt]

I have friends who have been trying knitting-and-chat sessions over webconference, I don't know if that might work for you?

[petra]

I had been going to a yarn crafts meetup for a while too, and that has closed with the library.

I'm sorry your classes were canceled. They may not be big losses, but there's still the opportunities you don't have right now.

Good luck finding ways to get together with your friend virtually!