I know that it’s probably a meme that everyone mentions by how fast a year can go by. With that, I finally turned 32. Yes, I am that old already. Obviously, I felt that I didn’t do much since the pandemic has forced many to stay home.
Sure, it’s nice to work from home, but the toll of not really interacting with anyone for a long time started to take a toll. Despite being introverted and spending time talking to my parents virtually, I can only do it for a very long time before it gets tiring. Of course, the setbacks I face on my blog didn’t help matters either.
Believe it or not, I didn’t get much done during the last year since I want to keep myself safe. While I finally made it through my first year on the job with flying colors, it does feel that I didn’t accomplish much. Even with vaccinations and everything slowly starting go return to normal, I don’t feel ready. It’s mostly due to people refusing to get vaccinated despite the vaccines being safe. To me, it’s becoming very political when it shouldn’t.
Of course, people decide to ditch the masks when the mandates are lifted. I simply can’t trust people since I can’t know for sure they are fully vaccinated. This is one of the reasons I decided to not attend Otokon. That is besides the fact that there weren’t any notable guests to make it worthwhile. If things go right next year, there is a good likelihood that I will attend next year.
Despite the setbacks, I still feel optimistic about the future. While I don’t know what the next year will have in store, hopefully it will be a better one.
Happy birthday! Hope you enjoyed your special day.
I know how you feel about remote working. To me at the beginning it sounded like a dream but the lack of physical social interaction really got to me. I find even a day or two in the office makes a big difference to your sanity.
I just hope you don’t get cabin fever with your work/personal situation. Oh and leaving the yard to get a pop of exercise will also help, at least it did for me.
In time the covid thing should calm down but take the adequate precautions such as social distancing and mask wearing (even if you are vaccinated) and you should be fine.
Try not to worry about the virus and see it as an exercise in risk management. If you are overly cautious you deny yourself the pleasures of life which is not good. Take the recommendation actions but try not to worry about that what ifs. Do your best and let the gods sort out the rest.
While I don’t mind working at home, I think 5 days is of course a bit too much, although I plan to do three days once everything goes back to normal. But I just visited my parents on my birthday. Still, I don’t attend to do any meetups or attend any conventions until the virus settles down, hopefully next year. This is probably why I didn’t attend Otakon, although it wouldn’t be worthwhile since there are really no worthwhile guests. Since my parents are over 65, I don’t want to risk it despite them being vaccinated.
Still, Thanks.
Hope you had a good bday Chikorita!.
Thanks, and overall, it’s good.