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

[desireearmfeldt]

I often find when I'm in depressed/don't-wanna mode that social obligations I have to show up to can motivate me to get moving, and that interactivity can get me operating normally (while I'm actually doing it, at least).

My brain is not your brain, of course!

[petra]

That seems like a reasonable thing to expect of oneself. I need a standing coffee date at 8:15 or so to get me started, which seems like a lot to ask of my friends when they're all dealing with this pandemic in their own ways.

[desireearmfeldt]

The trick is to find someone who also needs a kick out of bed. :)

(Myself, I'm trying to start work promptly in the morning rather than getting in the habit of frittering away what would otherwise have been my commute time.)

[petra]

I feel pretty strongly that commute time is allowed to be your time, but then I'm not working, just fritterin'.

[desireearmfeldt]

True. But morning is my brain time, so if I can start early and end early, I'm likely to be more productive.