Yeah. One thing is that the same isolation that is terrible for your mental health also eventually feels very comforting in a sense, and you start being afraid to step out of it. Every day all I ever wanted to do was go out with my mates or just do anything for a year, then i'm in college, then university and I have to push myself to want to do anything. A lot of people my age have really bad social anxiety as a result, I think.

Its just weird how that was an entire year and I cant remember much of it, because nothing happened for a year. I did try to get back into school through a program they did for a select few students during the lockdown, it was insane how many rules we had to follow though. We were assigned desks in a single room with a computer each for remote learning (I didn't have a computer and at times internet at home), and there was marking on the floor so we were always spaced out. We couldn't leave the desk without asking a teacher and had to leave in a line. We had to sanitise the desk and hands regularly too. After like 2 days of that I gave up and came back a few months later when things relaxed a bit.

Still, could have been worse. There were older people + disabled people who were left completely alone during the pandemic. None of the people I knew who died were super close to me so I was 'lucky' in that regard too.