The Many Worlds of Quarantine...

@PaperbackFish

Quarantine, it's been, well it was there. For some, it was long and boring and dreadful. For others, it was joyful and not long enough. During quarantine, I lived between three worlds...

My first is the outside world where people are either dying or losing loved ones left, right and centre. Where poverty is worsening. Where people are loosing their jobs and their livelihoods. Where the pandemic prevails and is ruining the world at all chance it gets.

It is dark and morbid and almost dystopian. I chose to spend as little time in this world as humanly possible.

My second is warm and safe and comes in the comfort of my own home. Where I read and write and bake. Where I laugh and talk with all those I love. Where I can learn anything and everything without it being a bore. Where I don't have to change out of my pj's, or do my hair or even get out of bed because I have no one to be or anyone to see. Where I can sit on the couch all day eating chips and drinking coke and all the things that I shouldn't be eating. Where I am able to do nothing but read books all day. Where every day is a lazy day and that is absolutely okay. A world where all I have is time, time to do all the things that I enjoy but have no time to do when the world is not in a pandemic.

My third is not like any of my others and most may call it fictional but what matters is that it's real to me. It's a world I find in books, films and my own imagination. A world of magic, witches, wizards, dragons, faes and warriors. A world of action, adventure, of heroes and villains, of friendships and relationships. A world of all the maybes, and could be and have-beens.

My only regret about my third world is that it is fiction and eventually no matter how hard I try I must leave that world and those people and those adventures have to end and I have to go back to reality...