The last few months have felt surreal. I don’t even think I remember living them out. They passed by so fast yet each minute of each day felt so long. I feel like I’m living through my lucid dreams. I can’t wait for my head to hit the pillow at night so I can start wishful dreaming . I sometimes just gaze into nothingness thinking about the memories I could have made over the last few months of my life, the moments I could have experienced but now the time that has passed will never come back. But then again, I’m living through a pandemic. I’m not allowed to do the one thing all humans as living beings are meant to do... socialise . I tell myself that it’ll all be okay, that like all bad things this, too shall pass ignoring the fact that this could be the new “normal” and the fact that people are actually believing that scares me to my core. My body seems to somehow keep g...
During this awful time I can’t stop myself from thinking if this will be the limit to the experiences I’m gonna have. Will I never have a first kiss? Will I never experience a hug from my best friends again? Will I never make physical connections again? Almost every morning I wake up with a thought, a hope that maybe, just maybe they’ve found a cure. I think about the places that I could’ve visited. The Eiffel Tower in Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Would I never be able to discover new places? Travel to Australia, New York. All these thoughts keep me occupied during the days whereas at night, it dawns upon me that I can’t even meet my friends down the street, then it hits. Every night, tears fall down on my cheeks. I think about all the memories I’d already made and miss the people I’d made them with. Now all I have are pictures, calls and texts. I miss the h...