It's 2020 and the world would be soon halting to a stop. None of us could have foreseen what was going to happen, and all of us, I imagine, came out of this a different person. I'm not here to discuss politics or socio-economical issues that became prevalent during that time, I'm just here to tell you about how my life was when we were (mostly) all sent home.
As, I suppose with anyone else, when the order came through for non-essential workers to work from home, it was a shock. And I hated it - the first couple of months I spent at home, I did so under heavy protest. I did not want to work from home, but I would have gladly worked alone at the office then. I pleaded with my supervisor, but she wasn't having none of it.
I really couldn't get to grips intially with the idea of working from home, and the overall weirdness of those first few months of the pandemic was getting to me. I remember thinking how weird it was seeing the city I lived in all but deserted, how strange it was to be experiencing an almost sepluchral silence in the street I live in, which is always pretty busy. I started spending a whole lot more time online - I guess we all did - but even that eventually started to wear thin. It was like life, for me, had lost another of its layers. If, prior to this, I already felt distant from everyone, now I felt moreso.
I took everything that was happening as an opportunity to start fading away from people's memories - I recall spending quite a few days trying to erase my digital footprint as much as I could. Pretty much all of my social media accounts got deleted, and the only thing that remained were my blogs, though they too mostly languished in limbo.
As for work, I found myself struggling a bit - it was so happy helping out anyone who needed help back at the office, but this online only way meant that often things would take me longer to take care of than otherwise. Inside, I was praying that we could ride this pandemic out as quickly as possible, even though a few months into it I'd already have made my peace with having to work from home - I'd come to much prefer it really, so much so that I'm still working from home. The rest of the year, I think, was mostly uneventful, other than having spent some days in Switzerland for my birthday in August, once the travel restrictions had been somewhat lifted. But other than that I can't recalll a single thing that happened in my life that merits writing down. That year saw me continue my self-destruction, I was drinking - well, not more, but more often - and what with not having exercised in years, I was truly putting on the pounds.
Things didn't change in the slightest as we moved into 2021 - but in the first quarter of the year I'd be having a not so welcome change to my professional life. Nothing bad, mind, but certainly a step back.
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