Text Only

How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

<strong> Coronavirus sucks. Plus it we had a lot of gray days</strong> this week, which also sucked.<strong> Me and my friends coined gray days when I was noticeable sadder on rainy cold days</strong>. I'm sure we didn't actually come up with it, but we started to make that term more commonplace within just the five of us. <strong> If it was a rainy, cold, shitty day, one of us would remark, "oh, a gray day." It made it a little better putting a name to it.</strong> Now that I think about it,<strong> me and my friends have a lot of terms that we've coined, just among ourselves.</strong> We have this term called<strong> a 'twenty-four hour thing'</strong>, where if one of us accidentally said something just a little too mean, we could let them know by telling them that was a 'twenty-four hour thing'; something we would obsess over and pick at for at least the next 24 hours. It was essentially a way of expressing that the other person had landed a little too close to home with a remark they'd made. I think<strong> the worst part of this pandemic is how distanced I am from every one, especially my friends</strong> - thinking about our little things that we had to ourselves makes me miss them a little bit more than I already do<strong>. I spent about 16-17 hours on facetime with them this past week alone,</strong> which should say a lot about how much I need to have them present. I know I sound like a broken record, but the isolation affects me to a point where I think about it and feel it all the time.