Free Time During The Pandemic

When the pandemic ushered in a new era of social distancing, closures, and lockdowns, people realized that they would have more free time, and with that free time, the opportunity to accomplish big projects such as catching up on reading or studying a new language.

I’m sure that we have all accomplished some fun and useful things during our months of isolation. Even if it was watching lots of programming on streaming services, it was still something that you would not have had time for under normal circumstances.

If you haven’t accomplished as much as you had hoped, take heart. You didn’t really have as much free time as you thought you would.

Sure, you did have to give up some treasured activities, and you had to spend more time at home, but you were also faced with an entirely new set of challenges. How do you continue working when you can’t go to an office, or if you don’t work in an office, how do you get to work safely and stay safe while you’re there? How do you register for unemployment when the website can’t handle the sudden surge in traffic? How do you find toilet paper and hand sanitizer when the store shelves are bare? How do you keep up with prescriptions and medical procedures?

Surviving this pandemic has not been easy. Give yourself credit that for everything that you have done that got you this far. You really have accomplished a lot in the past year even if it wasn’t the way that you expected to use your sudden windfall of free time.