Lockdown things to do


Yes we are in a lockdown and it is perfectly understandable if you are at a stage where you are lying on your bed and you want to do something, but you don’t want to. You are feeling bad lying around doing nothing but you don’t want to do anything. So here’s a carefully compiled list of things to do, even if you don’t want to.
1.          Cooking – ingredients may be limited. But that’s exactly what watching Masterchef – limited ingredients rounds – has prepared us for. Also, when else are you going to get the opportunity to justify watching TV?
2.          Plants – spend time with your family and I mean your WHOLE FAMILY, including your plants. I have recently been given the mammoth task of watering our balcony – meaning jungle – of plants. Trust me I didn’t like it at first, I just did it by routine. However now you may catch me having a long philosophical conversation with a Ficus.
3.          Books – don’t you just love being able to shoot the names of prize winning books you have read when your friend is going on about some designer shoes. This is the perfect time to stock up on ammunition by reading all the books on the ‘Goodreads’ list.

It happens to be that it took me 25 days to list the 3 vital things to do during a lockdown. So all I can suggest now is that do these and any of the other goals you have and make them into a routine. You probably will HATE your routine and will want to throw a few punches here and there. But at least you will go to bed satisfied that you have done something and perhaps, as my Ficus says, you may just end up enjoying it.

My mom says this plant is not a Ficus. I would like to still call her that as she, the Ficus, doesn’t mind.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dilemma

Image
Do you know I am 15 years old and even though I claim life isn’t as complicated as it seems, one of the perks of being my age is you may be getting randomly stressed or panicked about your future. Now this is completely normal, I think. The thing is that today as I was pondering on philosophical things of our existence, as one might on a Saturday morning, I realised I wasn’t doing homework or studying at that moment and this made me guilty. Now surely that shouldn’t be right, why should I feel guilty for doing some philosophical thinking? “Because morning is for Physics”, my brain politely explained. That’s when It hit me – my default state was supposed to be ‘doing H.W.’ or ‘Studying’. If you have perhaps read my earlier blog on parenting, you would know that in my house thinking about butterflies (this is an example, we don’t only think about butterflies. Bees are important too) is preferred over sitting at a table and staring at study books. Despite that, in the back of my min...
Read more

Misadventures of a reluctant walker

Image
(typed by the little girl, without any grammar checks!) Walking is a good thing, but waking up at 6am on a Sunday morning and walking is not one of my favorite things to do. But, that does not seem to stop my mother. Every Sunday she takes me for a walk early in the morning. Usually these walks are planned, have specific starting point locations and a guide. My mother sometimes (as her hobby) conducts walks too. And many a time, I quite enjoy myself too. One Sunday as usual, I was woken up for a walk which was to start at 7am. While I was getting ready, I realized that the clock in our house is not showing the correct time. So, I went and checked the time on the phone, and to my dismay I saw that the time was already 6:30am! Immediately all the peace in the house was shattered as everybody started running around as frantic as possible. Anyhow we all tumbled into the car at 6:45am. When we finally reached the location we were utterly surprised to find absolutely nobody...
Read more

Global Day of Parents

Image
Today is international parenting day, so I felt that maybe I should write a blog about parents or perhaps it would be more appropriate if they wrote one for me. The first time I realised that there was something peculiar about the way my parents were parentings, was in junior school. When my friends used to crib about their parents dragging them to tuitions every day. Now this didn’t sound right to me as the only place my parents dragged me to was to the park. Intrigued, I investigated further and found out that they had timetables at home ! These timetables were like lists, not like the annoying list I had at home which dictated which 5 fruits I have to have that day, but a list with all the activities under the sun allotted to a time slot. In a day, they would have a math tuition, a science tuition, singing class and skating class. I never had these time slots. I thought everybody played, studied and slept like me. If I had to follow any of those timetables, by the end of the...
Read more