STORIZEN CONTRIBUTE

My Quarantine Life

- Stuti Gogia

Dear Diary – I am documenting this as part of that phase of my life when we all were quarantined at our homes due to COVID-19. It started somewhere in March 2020 when the government declared lockdown throughout the country to protect citizens from pandemic which was spreading in the world with lightning speed.

And that's how I started our isolation journey in the first quarter of the historical year 2020.

For the first two days, I felt everything slowed down like someone pressed the pause button in my LIFE movie. I woke up and things started looking different, I did

not have to put an alarm to wake up, I did not have to rush to office, did not have to take on the go breakfast, push myself to go to the gym, not to crib about how bad it feels to be stuck in traffic and why house help not reached on time.

For a week everything was in chaos – like a complete mess of how to cope up with this new life.

And then one day I thought let me try to fit in this whole mess, so I started to adjust in a new routine. Yes, there was no alarm, but I started waking up normally just like any other day, started my regular activities slightly differently though. It included drinking tons of water, writing affirmations, mopping the house, which was my new exercise routine, doing my morning prayers and starting my work just like any other day. And that's how after few days everything started making sense, AQI dropped down a sudden, we started seeing blue skies, we all started spending time with our families, work from home become new normal, home balconies became new gym area and cooking and staying become the new cool.

That's how mother earth rebirthed and that's how we all got to know about minimalism.