I am possibly the most extroverted person you will ever meet, I love people. I’ve learnt from the nineteen years I have spent on this earth that one of the most valuable things in the world is a person’s company. The pandemic has taught everybody a lot of lessons, these are mine…
In one weekend my life was turned upside down, on the day that lockdown was announced I was in rehearsals for my A level Drama performance which I was due to perform the day that the very first lockdown started. I had heard of Covid-19 but I underestimated it massively, little did I know it would still be affecting me to this day. I assumed it was just some flu and thought that the statements made were Boris’s normal waffle. Next thing I knew my A levels were cancelled, I couldn’t go to work anymore and I had the most amount of free time I’ve had since I was a baby.
We realised this was the end of our time at school, we had spent seven years with the same people in the same building and literally over night it was over. So we did what any group of 17/18 year olds do when shit goes wrong, get drunk in a field. Swigging straight Tesco vodka and huddling together under a blanket on a net in the middle of the Wiltshire country side. I’m not even friends with those people anymore but that is one of the memories where the world feels both terrifying and absolutely enlightening.
I was so scared to be alone but as you might know if you experienced the very first lockdown, it was actually so much fun. I started running every day, got a job at Sainsburys and made Tiktoks with my family in my garden. It really is incredible how people are able to thrive no matter what, it could have been miserable but no the British public came together to make this potentially lonely time really exciting.
So, I was thrown in the deep end, it was overwhelming and it was scary but learning how to do things by myself and make the most of my spare time is a valuable lesson I have learnt. Having to worry about who you hug is crap but knowing there is always hope makes life a little less shit.
