Covid hit the world pretty hard last year. For me it ended up being both a good and a bad thing. Mentally it was kind of stressful, but it also helped me realize some things that I otherwise might not have in the near future.
A little backstory. Back in 2019 I graduated high school and went to study in France. Because of such a sudden move to such a different place, my lifestyle changed – in a way for the better. From eating way too much and gaining weight on a daily basis – to being vegan for a month and losing over 10 kg. I know only had a laptop so I couldn’t game almost at all, so I couldn’t play video games as much as I used to. That built momentum and little by little my life started to improve.
Now these were all good changes, because when I was back at home I sort of had a problem in these departments of my life. I was gaming way more than I should’ve. I ate too much and I definitely wasn’t getting enough physical activity. So, as you can guess, this move was a sort of blessing for me. I really evolved so to say in multiple areas of my life.
Everything seemed fine – until Covid hit. As any other country really, France was hit pretty hard during Covid, so my friends and I decided to go back home since this way we’d save money and well everything was online now university-wise so might as well.
Blah blah blah preparations blah blah blah trip and I’m home. I enter the house, I got to my room, I enter it. Something happened. The moment I stepped into my childhood room, it’s like the child inside of me took over. I became the old me. Especially since I was isolating so I had to stay inside of my room for most of the day everyday for two weeks. I started gaming all day cause the school year just ended. I ate a lot and well didn’t get almost any exercise. All that combined with the stress of the pandemic – I think you can imagine the “transformation”. I swear I was a bottle of vodka or a blunt away from being that loser from like every adult comedy that needs a “makeover” or whatever. It was bad.
Eventually because of all of this, I had to deal with it, so I did. This is why I say that Covid might’ve been a good thing for me because I was able to deal with a lot of my issues at the core. Not just on the surface but really change the young me inside of myself instead of just abandoning him in my old bedroom and ignoring him for the rest of my life.
I’d love to get more into it and the way I recovered, so I’ll probably do so in some other post some other time.
Anyway, the moral of the story is don’t run away from your problems cause they’ll either catch up to you or just wait for you when you get back.
August 