Stuck in Quarantine Pt. 2

Quarantine has continued to bring interesting aspects of my life that I either haven’t seen in years or haven’t seen at all. Those aspects revolve around tasks that come from staying at home. The pre quarantine life left me rarely having time to do anything at home and now the roles have reversed as school is no longer where I spend the majority of my life. It brings back memories of when I spent longer amounts of time at home when I was a little kid. I spent more time at home as a kid because, well, I was a kid and I had nothing on my platter. Except in those days I lived down in the city, across the street from a park with endless possibilities of activities that I can do. Trapped in the confines of my own home nowadays marks a different era, a different way to find that dopamine release my mind is always after. Electronics have taken over my livelihood in the habits of quarantine, and what I like to do, although I may want to do something out of the ordinary I always find myself procrastinating whether or not to do it. I have found myself multitasking by having a video on my phone going and playing video games at the same time. The videos have often been the “This is not happening” series from Comedy Central on YouTube, the new Netflix original Tiger King, SNL, or just classic stand-up comedy. On the other hand, or part of my focus for better wording, the video games I have been playing quench the multiple different desires my brain puts in place. I have been playing games such as Minecraft the creative sandbox that allows my brain to shape whatever it wants, in survival mode of course. I also found myself playing loads of madden football, blowing out teams and having loads of fun doing it. Lastly, and easily the most important of the games I have been playing in my opinion, I have been playing Grand Theft Auto V. I have been playing the online version of GTA V with my friends on nearly a daily basis now as I look for the best way to feed my inner extrovert. Asking all of my friends if they’re online in hopes of being able to have fun socially without the in person aspect. We have been driving around tanks, blowing up cops, driving around fancy cars, gambling at the casino, running heist missions, messing around in our high end apartments, and much much more. GTA has became a virtual real life crime simulation that has yet to receive its state warranted quarantine order and I am definitely grateful for that. My life has had desires to venture out and try things such as makeshift mini golf in the house, but I have yet to execute that, but who knows what could be up on the next couple of blog posts, only time will tell.