When I went out today there was an odd almost eerie stillness and quietness. Few cars dared to drive and few people chose to walk. Those few people who were outside walked with purpose, trying to avoid contact and interaction with others. Oblivious to the masked insanity around them, the birds still chirped, the sun still blazes warming the earth and the fresh flowers begin to poke there colorful heads from the dirt. 

    I know these times are temporary, but it feels weird. I will be ecstatic once I can return to normal life. My only concern will be that people will stay paranoid after life starts to return to normal. I am confident however, that we as a society will be able to adjust back to our everyday lives.

    Being on this walk gave me a lot of time to think about all that has been going on. I realized how much my normal life meant to me. I thought I would be ok having some time to lay on the couch and watch TV, but I found quite the opposite, I miss everything about what I had before quarantine. On my walk I realized that I had taken everything for granted and now that its gone I miss it more than every.

    The walk was very eye opening, to see the world in its weird, odd, glory and it was great to be alone. In quarantine I never get a chance to be away from my family, (for better or for worse) so getting a few minutes to myself to think about all the things that have been going on was great. I hope to take more walks like this, getting out and alone, time to think. There is this sort of sadness in the realization that everything is out of my control, regardless of how much I may hope that things will go back to normal, there is nothing that I can do. It’s a difficult thing to process, but I know that there is a nation feeling the same way.

    I don’t know what the future will hold, I don’t know how the rest of quarantine will go. What I do know is that the most important thing is that my family is safe and we have enough food and that is all that I can ask for.