What do you like most about your quarantine self?

So this week I stumbled upon this question on the timeline of my Facebookfriend Patty Golsteijn and boy am I ready to give you an answer on that one. Because can I be completely honest with you? I haven’t felt this well rested in a long time. Didn’t know I needed a pandemic to allow myself to chill the f**k at home. And wash my damn hands more often.

During those 24 hours I got to know myself a little bit better and found that I was very good in entertaining myself. Frankly, I already knew this, since I grew up to be an only child and had heaps of imaginary friends. Yes, also real friends. But they didn’t have the invisible super powers my imaginary ones had. Sorry guys!

So no suprise that these days I am experiencing a great amount of JOMO also known as the Joy Of Missing Out. But that’s very easy isn’t it? Because there is not much to miss out on. All of y’all are stuck in isolation just like me so that means there are no party’s I have to kindly decline or gatherings I don’t want to go to — but I sorta feel like I have to — but maybe if I go it will be fun — yeah let’s go — or not. Do you remember those nights?

Don’t get me wrong. I love me some good quality time with my friends and family. But NOW is the time to get to know myself a little bit better. Dust of my thoughts or maybe even dreams I haven’t touched in a while. Not in an over productive ‘never waste on a good crisis’ kind of manner. No, I’ve noticed myself really taking the time to do some stuff because I want to.

That means I find myself practicing yoga every other day. I’ve put on the running shoes @liannekeemink was so kind to donate to me and get my ass into the park (while social distancing, easy tigers). I’ve folded my clothes the Marie Kondo way. And as I predicted it got messy in two weeks again and you know what: don’t really care. Because life will always unfold the way it wants to and if that means the same for my clothes: well there you go.

Actually it doesn’t even matter what I do or don’t do. Because the real question was: What do I like most about my quarantine self? And that answer is plain simple: I like it that I take the time and slow down and do whatever I want to do.

I could only hope that when these funky days are over I still manage to keep up that attitude. And otherwise you find me hugging y’all at the gatherings I sorta didn’t wanna go to but while I’m there it turns out to be actually quite nice.

What do you like most about your quarantine self?

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