How's the Household?

One thing about this pandemic and the circuit-breaker (partial lockdown) is that it has forced us to abandon (physically) our external friends, classmates, colleagues and neighbours. We are not allowed to meet them at all – full stop – unless you want to end up with a fine or even jail time. The world has basically used the excuse of social distancing to make you anti-social. It should be called anti-social distancing because it goes against every rule of being sociable – unless sociable here means being friendly to others and not wishing a deadly virus on them, then maybe it makes sense. Depressing and confusing.

Having dinner with my housemates

So now, the only people we can hang out with, all-day, all-night, is our housemates. Unless you share a rental apartment, this typically means your immediate family members, and perhaps a pet or two.

As a result, you end up getting to know them intimately – for better or worse, arguments and fun times alike, you must accept them to keep the peace. Annoyances, quirks, device addictions, driving everyone insane, Zoom conferences (which is where the changing background feature comes in handy – I thought it was just a novelty, now I see the genius), board and card games, movies.

And then it’s time for bed – but some people refuse to go to sleep. Sigh.