Take Time.

The pandemic seems to be happening unevenly throughout the world. While we can all agree that it is happening to everyone, it seems to be happening to everyone differently. It’s the same storm, but everyone has a different boat. For those of us living in the Philippines, we have spent half of the year 2020 in quarantine with endless reiterations and prefixes to the phrase ‘community quarantine’. The times before all this seems so long ago — like an actual lifetime ago. There is no normal that we are returning to and all we have are half-baked ideas on what a ‘new-normal’ might be with all the entities that seek to define what it might and can and will be.

With this, what the pandemic has given us, to those of us privileged enough to still have ease of existence, is time — so, so much more time than we thought we had or thought possible. We have shaved off the time for getting ready for school or to work, shaved off the time we spend in malls, cafes, pubs, and shaved off all the time we used to spend with our friends, family, and those who don’t live within half a kilometer of the space we move around in. What we were left with after all this skimming of time is too much time than we know what to do with.

At the beginning of this quarantine, way back in March, there was an endless stream of posts preaching of the need for productivity, for progress, for hustle, and all the promises that all this newfound free time seemed to promise. Hopeful and doe-eyed, there were so many people who took to taking care of their fitness and health, to exercise within the comforts of their own home, others taking to the crafts and talents that they never felt they had the time for, taking time to study with the online courses that suddenly became free, working from home, spending time with family, and all the things we saw a surge of at the beginning of the quarantine. As it began, there was an upsurge of workout videos, pictures of food and cooking, posts on social media about the online course they had just enrolled in, and so on and so forth. Yet as the weeks and months wore on, all the zeal and excitement for all these things waned off and all we are now is burned out, tired, and mentally exhausted from all the things that bombard us.

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