i think i miss quarantine
Maddi Chun
This won’t be a popular opinion, but as I sit in my bed on Friday night, I can’t help but miss the spring of 2020. For the first time in my life, I was allowed to put a pause on everything. While the world I knew was falling apart, I was sitting in my childhood bed, watching coming of age movies until 6 a.m. every single day. My normal routine of waking up, school, work, socializing, and homework had paused. My new routine was non-existent. I loved it.
I was home in Southern Oregon, a rural area where Covid-19 cases were pretty rare in the beginning, so getting Covid didn’t feel like a huge concern back then. I was just back in my hometown, blowing bubbles in my backyard with my dogs.
Of course it’s a little fucked up that while a global pandemic was going on, I was able to just sit in my room and watch movies. According to the CDC, that was my part in the war effort of fighting Covid-19, but it’s hard to describe what I
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