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QuaranTime Thoughts

Updated: Apr 29, 2021



Hey! Thanks for taking time to read my blog! You know being in quarantine has given me soooooo much free time. Which means the thought train has been filled up with a lot of "I'm bored, I'm hungry, and surprisingly I miss school". Before quarantine I would have all of these thoughts, but quarantine has brought a new level to these thoughts. You see before quarantine I was bored, but IN quarantine I am bored to the point of watching Avatar the Last Airbender for 5 hours straight. Even talking about boredom is boring. You ever realize that no one talks about being bored? Like no one can have a deep conversation about how bored they are. Sure you can talk about HOW bored you are, but that only takes about two seconds.


"IM SOOOOOOOO BORED!!!!"



See? It took all of two seconds to express how bored I was. And I even added a gif for extra emphasis! But when it is all said and done, I am grateful to have the opportunity to be bored because being bored means that life is fine and dandy. No need to worry about being able to pay the next bill, no stress, no big and daunting task to complete that could be life altering if you screw it up, and no work.


Food

With the overabundance of boredom has come with an overabundance of eating. In fact eating has become a highlight in my life since quarantine. Instead of before when eating and watching an episode of New Girl was a nice break from life, now its eating and watching Netflix to escape from the boredom.


Not being able to eat solid food because of my jaw surgery has been a struggle. While I don't find myself craving regular food, I do find myself missing the ability to eat normal food. Like for once I would like to not have to blend my Campbell Chicken Noodle soup, and just eat it like a normal person with a normal functioning mouth! Granted I am almost done with the worst part of recovery, which are the first 6 weeks post-op, and I will soon be able to eat soft foods..... YAYY


I can eat soups without blending them... and... well.... that's about it. But nonetheless I am taking it one day at a time. I have found that Monday-Wednesday I feel the least energetic since it is the beginning of a new recovery week, but then Thurs-Sun I feel good because I know that I am getting closer to completing another week of recovery, which means one step closer to being able to eat normal food!!



Being bored can sure take of a lot of time. Because while I am being bored almost 24/7, there comes the big task of dwelling on what I miss the most. Which at this point is school. Which I never thought I would be saying. I mean sure finding a parking spot is a hassle, and driving to school in a car that barely has functioning A/C sucks, but the sweet feeling of finding a parking spot close to my school is something that being at home cannot deliver. Like seriously, there's nothing that beats the feeling of finding THE perfect parking spot. A parking spot close enough to both the college and high school that, when planned strategically, means that at the end of the school day it is just a short walk to the car. And THAT is how you end the day strong.


School

Of course there's other things that I miss about school too besides finding the perfect parking spot. I also miss the environment. The environment of productivity, and academic rigor. Well.... not the academic part because it's boring. But the environment in which the academics are taught is what makes school special. Sitting with your fellow classmates listening to the teacher give a boring lecture on WWII and then talking about how the teacher did some obscure thing during the lecture afterwards. It's those small interactions that make school special and is what I miss. Being located on a college campus also makes it more interesting because you come across such a wide variety of people. As high schoolers on a college campus we all know what it feels like to be apart of a college environment, something that most high schoolers do not understand, and it is through the high school/college experience that makes us closer.


That and the once a semester sport activity our school has. You see my high school doesn't have sports since we do not have the time or space to partake in regular high school activities. So instead we have to reserve other high schools gyms or park if we want to play a sport. My school usually does one sport activity that we do once a month.


The first month is Class Cup which is when all the different grades compete with each other in a series of games in order to achieve the highest amount of points, and then the final activity is a game of flag football where each grade goes head to head.


For the Spring semester our school partakes in March Madness which does not have a series of activities like Class Cup but rather is a tournament where each grade makes two teams within each grade and all the teams compete against each other. Ahhhh, yes those were the good ol days. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, this years March Madness had to be cancelled, and that one hour of practice I did in preparation for the tournament was flushed down the toilet.


Well those are all the thoughts I have for now. Who knows? Maybe I will have more Quarantime Thoughts in an hour!

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