One Day Soon

MOC 13 - In a Mirror

Journaling reads:
I've always been an introvert and I love to occasionally be on my own. But this last year the Corona pandemic took it to an extreme, making me longing for face-to-face human interaction more than ever.

The last time that I went to the university to teach was in the first week of March. Since then I have been teaching 100% digitally. The number of times that I've seen my parents and my brother and his family last year can be counted on one hand, while any other year I would see them almost any other weekend. The rest of my family I haven't seen at all in 2020 and that while we're usually very close and visit each other on every birthday and special holiday.
Tim does work on location, so during the day I'm all alone. Except for a random cashier that I see once a week at the supermarket when I shop for groceries, the only other human face I see is my own reflection. Sometimes my reflection scares me a bit, because I hardly ever put on any make-up nowadays and I wear pajamas all day. Because what's the point of dressing up if you have nowhere to go and no-one to see? And next to that the corona-kilo's are becoming more and more noticeable, as is getting older of course.

Today, on the birthday of my late grandfather, the government announced that there will be a curfew and that there will be even more strict corona-measures we need to follow. It doesn't move in the right direction at all at the moment, which makes me feel a little blue at times. But I still hope that since there are vaccinations now, I'll be able to meet my family again a lot more often soon. Until then I'll try to remain hopeful, to keep wearing a smile on my face and to appreciate all the positive little things around me even more.


To create this layout I used the bundle "Through the Storm" by Amy Wolff.