So, the Netherlands is in lockdown. A fucking hard lockdown, for a month, during the fucking holidays. I am so, so, so frustrated by this. I've been working my ass off since the moment I got here. I've been studying and that's virtually all I've been doing because I wanted to do well in my… Continue reading I hate lockdowns
Tag: covid-19
Social Media Detox
Quite an enormous proportion of the human race has convinced itself that our phones, specifically social media, are absolutely imperative for our survival in this modern, tech-driven world. To be honest, I was one of these people, maybe I still am, but there's a seed of doubt in my mind now. I'm a college student.… Continue reading Social Media Detox
Stress
I haven't been doing very well since yesterday in terms of my mental health. A lot of stuff has been going on. My university is conducting exams when there was a regulation released that they should be cancelled, there's a COVID case pretty close to home and I've been feeling rather unproductive and inferior lately.… Continue reading Stress
Numb to the Numbers
The COVID-19 pandemic has the world at its knees. People are suffering, they're dying and the rest of us are quarantined with our mental healths possibly weakening. Despite this, I have faith that we will come out of this victorious, as we have after past epidemics and pandemics. But there's something that I want to… Continue reading Numb to the Numbers