Not going out (117/365)

[white_hart]

A colleague was saying to me last week how exhausting it was dealing with all the social things she suddenly had happening since lockdown started easing. I've seen lots of people on social media posting about the things they're doing now, too. Meanwhile, the only change that the easing of lockdown has made to me over the last few weeks is that, as of 29 March, I've been able to swim with both of my swimming friends at once*. I haven't been to shops, pubs or restaurants; none of my team are going back into the office on a regular basis just yet; and I haven't seen anyone apart from my swimming friends in person**.

I almost miss lockdown, when being a weird antisocial gremlin who never has weekend plans and uses pretty much all their social spoons for work was so much less detectably different from everyone else, and I didn't feel that I had to camouflage my lack of friends-I-see-in-person-on-a-regular-basis*** behind vague mutterings about people not living nearby (though that is also true for most of the people I'd really like to see in person, but I'm not sure the people who see lots of people find it that convincing. Or not just as weird as not wanting to rush out and see people after four months of lockdown).

*Although as one friend has just had surgery which had been put off several times due to COVID, for the next few weeks I'll only be swimming with the other friend anyway.

**Saying which, on Friday I will be going into the office and having an outdoor six-person leaving tea for a colleague who is retiring.

***And, indeed, interest in spending my weekends peopling when I could be sewing and recovering from another hard week on Teams and not having to navigate masks and social distancing arrangements and worrying about people getting too close.

Comments

[mrs_redboots]

I am enjoying seeing my grandsons again and, to a certain extent, going to church in person and preaching in person, which is about as social as I get - but I am finding it incredibly tiring! My mother and sister had two different lots of family down last Sunday (they overlapped long enough to say "Hi", but that was all) and said that afterwards they just sat in their chairs, too exhausted even to turn the television on! Peopling is exhausting, who knew?! I have been going to the local supermarkets all along, but am struggling with the concept of going further, which I do need to do fairly soon.

[white_hart]

Peopling is definitely exhausting!