Month: June 2020

Hobbies and Exams

I like many people, am experiencing the dreaded examination period at its fullest.

Due to the fact that this virus has pushed all of our tests online, the tests themselves will be significantly harder as they have now been adjusted to the open-book format. Open-book essentially means that you will be expected to critique more as well as just generally using your own analyses to a greater extent due to the fact that you have all of the information laid out in front of you. For this reason, such tests tend to be more difficult for me. I have been studying like a demon, lately and I will continue to do so until the exam period is over. This has unfortunately meant that I have had to put many of my hobbies aside in order to study. This is understandable and important to do but sad nonetheless.

One of these hobbies has been writing. I don’t know if you, the reader, have noticed (unless of course you are new here, in which case- welcome!) but I have not been as active on this platform as I should be. It has just gotten to that stage in which even writing a single post once a week has been challenging time-wise. I haven’t even been able to watch any of the new season of The Politician on Netflix because of my cray schedule. Now that is just plain old sad.

Considering this, however, I find writing to be really good for my mental health. No matter how much I have to study, I also have to take care of said mental health. It is for this reason that I will be writing here more frequently. Writing on my blogs is really important to me and I should make it more of a priority in my life. If I can stay active on YouTube through all of this, surely I can stay active on The Bluebird Circle as well.

Do comment your thoughts on this, I am open to hearing any advice on the matter.

Take care of yourselves.

-Birdie

Loneliness and Quarantine

I think we all miss somebody, be it friend or family.

I know personally that I miss my friends in particular. All of this brings me back to that time between high school and university when I just felt extremely lonely (I wrote a past post about that so feel free to check that out). I don’t feel lonely on nearly the same scale as I did then but yesterday it all started to hit me. I just wanted to discuss this today.

I think that I miss the small things like getting iced coffee with my friends or hanging out with them in our respective dorm rooms. I suppose that some of the loneliness comes from a lack of normalcy in life, a change in routine and custom. I have been trying to think of ways to combat this feeling and I have come up with a few solutions. The first thing may seem obvious but video call your friends, I mean actually video call them. It’s the next best thing to actually seeing them in person. Playing some of the songs that you guys commonly enjoy and that remind you of nights out or times spent hanging out could help to establish the mindset that you are still enjoying those activities and could help to bring back memories of better times. Lastly, I would recommend creating a new routine and sticking to it. This will bring back a sense of normalcy and routine to your everyday life and may help you cope with the effects of quarantine.

These have been a couple of my tips to combat loneliness during quarantine. I have a bunch of other tips so be sure to comment if you’d like me to write a sequel to this post!

Good luck.

-Birdie