Quarantine
Everything’s shut. Nothing’s opened. Another day goes by as I take the route along the canal, occasionally going off the path to take a look at some of the pubs that have shut up shop. Where once we had a bustling high street, we now have eerie, Hopperesque scenes of life without life, establishments without patrons, and empty chairs at empty tables.
Now that London is on complete lockdown, everyone is spending a lot more time inside. Everyone has a lot more time. Books will be read, content consumed and what will I be doing? I’m trying to take this period of unemployment with no end in sight, as a gift of time. I’m using it to do what I never did. I’m building a profile, I’m creating content, I’m pursuing small acts of creativity that I always promised I would. I have been gifted this time, and I hope to fill all the broken promises I made to myself. New Year’s resolutions don’t normally get done for me, for one reason or another. I always try to do what I can to live a normal life full of ‘going out’ and ‘socialising’ but now, we’re all in the same place. I tried a lot, but I never achieved anything. This is a good time to change that.
