Impact Coronavirus on My Daily Life
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused vast changes to how my and everyone’s daily lives around the world have been changed. This current pandemic has changed the daily decisions I used to make and have had to adapt to a new system. The virus has also had positive and negative impacts on my daily life. In the current state of the pandemic there have been things that have changed in major ways; relationships, daily routines, and the effect it has had on me.
The first thing that has been affected for me has been my relationships with friends and family. Since the beginning of quarantine, seeing my family and friends has not been possible. Seeing my family has been very limited. One example of seeing my family was when we went to the store for my great grandma. Other times when I see my family it is when we go fishing at the creek we go to. When we go fishing we are all spread out and we stay apart from each other, but this is the way that we have been able to interact. One positive that has been brought from quarantine has been the ability to stay at home and interact more with my mom and step dad and my step siblings. I feel like it has brought us all closer together and have bonded a lot more. One negative quarantine has given me is not being able to see my girlfriend. This has been hard for both of us to not be able to see each other. The last time we were with each other was before we were sent home from Ball State. We still talk on the phone as much as possible, but that is the only form of communication that we are able to have. My relationship with my friends has improved, even though we are not able to hangout at one of our houses we have been able to hangout and play video games. I will say this has been a positive side to quarantine. Since we all moved to our own colleges and most of us are going to different ones. It has been a great way for all of us to reconnect and catch up with each other, and talk about how our first year of college has been, and share all of our memories. These are some ways that COVID-19 outbreak has affected my relationships.
The second thing that has been affected by the pandemic, has been my daily routines. Since coming home and being on lockdown I feel my whole daily routine I used to have has been switched. For me the biggest thing that has been impacted is my sleep schedule. I used to wake up before 12 P.M every day, and then get up and start my day. I’d say the last two weeks of April have been the worst for me. Some days I will stay up all night and then go to bed at 1 or 2 in the afternoon and not wake up until 8 or 9 at night, and have been on a repeated cycle of this. This has definitely had a negative impact on me because I can not seem to get back into a normal routine like I used to be. Along with quarantine another thing that has had a big impact on me has been the ability to stay focused with online school. I feel it has been a lot more of a struggle for me to stay on top of my work and stay on track. There will be days when I completely forget about having school work and just do what I want and then wait till the very last second to do my work, and not doing it to the best of my ability. Another negative that has come from this, I feel has been the ability to learn. Along with online school, the ability to learn the material has been hard. I felt that it was a lot more suitable for me to learn from in class lectures and not having to go through watching online lectures for most of my classes. It was definitely something that has been hard for me to adapt to. Along with daily routines one thing that has been a big change too has been the amount I have been eating. I feel somedays I will be constantly eating and others I will hardly eat. This has been hard for our family to adjust to because there are 5 or 6 of us in a house at a time and the amount of food we have and when we go to the grocery store there has been very limited supplies there and for most essential things you are limited to the amount you are able to buy. These are some of the positive and negative impacts quranatine has had on my daily routines.
The last thing that has been most affected has been myself. I have been affected mostly physically and mentally. I have been affected physically by the outbreak, because it has limited my ability to workout and keep my body maintained. I have not been working out since quranatine has begun. Ever since my motivation to do at home workouts has not been something that I have wanted to do. Along with that I used to be strict with what I ate, and now I can be as strict because of how limited everything is. Along with this has been some emotional struggles. I feel being locked in a house with the ability to not leave has taken a toll on me. I have not had any motivation to get anything done that I have needed to and I feel that it has been hard on me. I feel like I have become very lazy too. I do not think there has really been a positive effect on myself since quarantine. The only thing that might have been affected in a positive way has been the amount of sleep I have gotten. This is how quranatine has affected me personally.
Quarantine has been going on for about a month and a half, but it feels like it has been happening for forever. Quarantine has affected; my relationships, daily routines, and the effect it has had on me. Hopefully quranatine will be over soon so we can all go back to our normal daily lives. If this virus does continue on this might be a new normal for us and hopefully it does not come to that.