Enjoy the Self Quarantine!
Not realizing that it will soon become mandatory for all, I started my self-quarantine journey way back in November 2018. I got my special leave from work approved. Back then, it was not for protecting myself from a pathogen but it was for my perceived fear of losing myself to the chaos of an unproductive yet dead busy work-life. And while I was happy that I was getting to relax and getting all the time i wanted to pursue things I love, I was equally apprehensive about this new arrangement that I had asked for myself. I didnt have to go to office suddenly after 10 years of constant to and fro between home and office and I didnt have a position to myself to make me feel important and influential. I didnt even have an active network with whom I interacted everyday outside home. I dont know if one has noted it, but I believe going out of home gives us an inflated sense of importance. We get ready, dress-up and prepare ourselves to go out, and therefore it makes us perceive ourselves su...