I MISS NORMALITY

This blog post just came to me and I thought I would share my thoughts as you can tell by the title this is about covid/pandemic/lockdown we're in which we have been on/off since March 2020. I didn't think this would still be going on now and I really didn't think it would have ruined 2020 but it did. I really hope this is over soon because it's been so long and I want to be able to do things.

Lockdown 2020 had it's positives the nice weather, walks, sitting outside, making things etc and spending more time at home with my parents. I struggled a bit with the first lockdown but as we had nice weather I was going on a lot of walks but now we're in January 2021 the weather is cold, rainy and dull. I have cried a few times during lockdown and it has affected my mental health more than before all this. It is hard to find things to do and I do feel bored sometimes but I know we don't need to be doing things all the time we can just nap! which I do haha.

I miss going clothes/makeup shopping out of town as were I live there's literally only charity shops, hairdressers, beauty salons and coffee shops so I like to go to Colchester where there's more variety. I miss being able to pop into shops without having a mask, hand sanitiser and social distance (which people still don't get), I miss being able to go to lunch and see my family whenever. I miss having freedom as now I can't just decide to hop on the bus to another town I really hope this covid virus goes away soon because I am fed up now.

I don't even know if I should be job hunting I haven't been to the jobcentre since March 2020 the longest time I've not been and that's without a job!. I have no idea if they'll be any jobs after this? as so many companies have gone bust and made redundancies which is awful. I thought 2020 would bring me a job but it didn't. I don't like being unemployed it does get me down at times but I know I can't do much about it at the moment. I hope things get somewhat better soon and we can see our families again.

Thanks for reading.