Lockdown December

So, now it is official. We are on lockdown again here in Germany starting on Wednesday. We have been on a partial lockdown since the beginning of November and now this lockdown is getting more serious with lots of more restrictions.

Basically things will be again just like they were from March until June 2020. Restaurants and bars have been closed since November and now all public life will be shut down to an absolute minimum again. Officially until the 10th of January but I am sure it will be much longer. I think this lockdown will be worse than the first one since it is Winter and the numbers of cases is insanely high these days.

I am glad that I decluttered my home KonMari style and that organised all my storage options since I will be spending lots of time at home now due to the lockdown. I have to confess that I have been a bit down in the past few days, basically since Thursday of Friday, from whenever on it was obvious that a much stricter lockdown will be following. In general I have been feeling a bit drained lately, I guess it is time for some vacation time. I have been working all year without any vacation and I guess now I have reached the point where I start feeling it. I love my job, I really do, but some free time is much needed as well.

So, during this new lockdown I will try to slow down, recharge my batteries and get back into working on my own projects. And hopefully in a few months we can return to living a normal life again and be able to travel again.

On a personal note I can’t complain - even with the whole Corona thing going on, things have been going well for me and I am grateful for that. I just realise that I need some time off and ideally traveling somewhere and to have a bit of a change of the scenery that would be perfect. But the traveling part is very unlikely to happen soon.

So my goals for the time of the lockdown are to recharge my batteries so I have energy to work on my own projects again, to make sure I make the time at home as pleasant as it can be (reading, cooking nourishing food, workouts at home, drawing and painting, learning new skills) and then in a few months all of this madness will hopefully be over again.

I’d recommend to anyone who is feeling like going crazy from the lockdown and the current situation to focus on yourself, to do things that make you feel well and happy and bring you joy. I know, the whole social distancing part and not meeting friends or families is tough but I try to tell myself that this won’t be forever and that in a few months things will be normal again.

I think the most important thing is to stay calm, not to follow the news too much in order not to let the bad news drive you crazy and to figure out what you can do for yourself that makes you feel well. At least that are me strategies to keep my sane.

Love,

Phyllis