As the lockdown is settling in, you start shifting from the euphoria from the beginning to a sort of strange state, as if in a limbo. You start to really feel the lack of social interactions, but also simply going out. So when then fires make the air unbreathable, when the smog is so thick that it smells as though your neighbor is preparing a barbecue 10 feet away, when IQAir tells you that you are living in the city with the worse quality of air in the world at the moment and that the Mayor of Kyiv advises not to open windows at any time, the term lockdown starts feeling strangely real...
I already touched upon that issue, but felt like it needs a follow-up, because this pandemic does not look like it wants to stop any time soon and so we may stay at home for quite a while.
The central Adoration of the Mystic Lamb panel of Jan van Eyck
Today is Catholic/Protestant Easter. Living in an Orthodox country, my girlfriend asked me a simple question: how do you want to celebrate? I was a bit startled I must say.
Well, I do not celebrate Easter, because I do not believe in God. That was my first answer.
But then, I immediately realized that it was not really true.
Irrespective of the fact that working at home involves spending a considerable number of hours in front of computer screens, in VTC, on the phone and drafting documents, you have a fair share of the time for yourself, at home. What to do with this surplus of time?
The central Adoration of the Mystic Lamb panel of Jan van Eyck
