Anyone actually enjoying lockdown

[Gre8scott]

I am loving it no rush to school no rush to get to work no rushing about get kids to clubs.
Being with my beautiful family all day every day.
Not having to worry about the fact I dont go out at weekends
Love it

Me but was home educating before the lockdown

The ways in which it has changed my life are definitely improvements. Fewer vehicles so cleaner air. More birdsong, and easier to hear it. Having dd home from Uni (though it's not a plus for her). DH not stressing about work. More phone calls.

It hasn't really changed my life in negative ways as I was stuck at home most of the time anyway, and didn't see many people except when out shopping - that's still my main social activity just less often. I've spent years keeping myself occupied so I'm pretty good at it.

I’m enjoying it even though I’ve spent a lot of it being ill with covid.
I appreciate that I’m fortunate in that I live alone and just lost my job, so am claiming benefit which is just about enough to get by.
I have had the time and space to get ill and get well.
I have chronic fatigue anyway, the ordinary world was too fast paced and working from home was a special honour.
Obviously I’m not happy that there’s a global pandemic. Also I’m the only person I know who has had it.

I can understand people making the most of it, a time to reset and reassess priorities, a time to slow things down. But many of these responses are beyond crass when you consider the price that others have had to pay for you to "love" the time you're having.
The smallest tad of empathy would not be inappropriate.

Yes I’m enjoying it.

I enjoy working from home. I haven’t straightened my hair or worn make up for 5 weeks now! I sleep until 8.15 and start work (in my PJs) at 8.30. Eat dinner all together every day. No rushing around for activities.

Yes I have to admit I am enjoying many aspects of it

No rushing around shouting & running out the door with the DC each morning, no rush hour traffic (well that's changing at the moment)

No pressure to have to go anywhere at the weekends

I'm sad our holidays have been cancelled, but my bank balance is looking much better after being reimbursed

Just enjoying us all being at home together as a family

Well I’m pretty content but I’ve had some hospital treatment postponed so i can’t say that’s brilliant

Well I enjoy not rushing round with work, school and children's clubs and not getting up at 4am for work but nothing else. I'm bored, my children are bored and I'm worried about giving birth next month. Miss,my family so much to but it's nice to hear some people are being positive.

I am appreciating how much more manageable my life has become. No rushing or cramming too much in. Time to do the garden, make nice food etc. DD is safe and happy, no dramas at school, we are all doing ok. I miss so much of my proper life though, and would love to be able to drive to the beach and walk for miles, but at the moment I am very grateful for my quiet safe life during the nightmare that is unfolding for so many other people.

I’m really enjoying it. Been chronically ill and often virtually housebound for the last seven years, been really lonely and low at times. I’ve pretty much been on lockdown conditions for most of that time-unable to work, meet friends or go out much, and due to my illness, really susceptible to suddenly becoming very unwell without much notice. I’m kind of used to it now.

DH is WFH now, so now I’ve got some company. He’s way less stressed without a commute and we have more time together. We have lunch everyday and he’s finished for the day an hour & a half earlier because no travel time, so more time in the evenings too.

His firm have said people can WFH for the foreseeable future. When lockdown lifts, no-one has to go back into the office if they don’t want to for whatever reason.

At first, the extra precautions we need to take due to the coronavirus made me very anxious, as I’m not at more risk of catching it than anyone else, but I am prone to strong immune reactions so was worried if I got it, I’d get it really badly. But we’ve got good systems in place now and I feel a lot better now than a few weeks ago.

I’m loving it too. I do think that to some extent these things are what you make them. Not always as I know for some lockdown is grim. But for others it’s a case of choosing your attitude.

I'm not hating it, which is about as much as I can hope for. Very much looking forward to going back to something resembling a normal life, though.

People who are loving the 'slower pace of life', have you considered making permanent changes to your lives after lockdown to keep some aspects of this?

Me.

Even though I’m not in a great situation in many ways. Just being able to pause life, (I’m a carer so not exactly lazing around), but a simple life, it’s making my brain slow for once and just take stock.

I think it's bloody awful, I have hated every minute! I'm glad some people are enjoying themselves though, just because my life's a bit shit doesn't mean I have to drag everyone else down.

I am not really enjoying it now. I feel I am too lazy for lock down. The less I have to do the even less again I am doing. I was always a bit anti social and think I am getting worse. It has made me realize how precious life is though and how things can change in an instant. All these people who were well a couple of weeks ago and are now dead has made me realize that I waste so much time. I want to make more effort to be a bit more creative with my time when I finally escape this lock down

I was loving it, totally. In some ways it was like a dream come true
However the novelty is wearing off a bit, and my kids are starting to get annoying.

And I'm willing to bet that those who love it most have a partner at home, with whom to share the childcare and the physical/mental load.

Not at all, very stressful to be honest, but it is nice not having to do school run. I am just as busy and rushed off my feet as I usually am and I am wfh, just have other necessary essential commitments and responsibilities which have increased / carried on.

Love the lack of traffic:)

I can understand people making the most of it, a time to reset and reassess priorities, a time to slow things down. But many of these responses are beyond crass when you consider the price that others have had to pay for you to "love" the time you're having.

I don't think there's anything wrong with loving the situation you find yourself in, if it's an improvement on your normal life. Just because many people are suffering doesn't mean the ones who aren't have to go around feeling sad all the time. But some people (not just on this thread) could definitely do with reining in the public proclamations of how wonderful it all is, especially the ones with undertones of "I must just be a stronger person than you unhappy plebs" smugness - it's like declaring how great it is that you have a six-figure salary in the middle of a recession. Just enjoy it quietly, without rubbing your good fortune in the faces of people who don't have it so lucky.

Yes I’m preferring it. Not the people dying obviously.
No commute. Speaking to family and some friends more often. Nature is coming back with birdsong everywhere.

I’m really enjoying it. I’ve realised that I absolutely hate my job,

Yeah. I don’t want to go back to how things were before. It’s made me realise I want a different life as well.

psychomath DH and I are going to wfh more when lockdown ends, and stop tearing around London so much at weekends too. We used to cram so much in, it was lovely but too much I think now. I accumulated a lot of friends over the years and needed to see each of them every few weeks, and that was becoming a bit too much too. I've realised the people I do want to see and the ones I'm happy to email regularly.
hopefully if we do ever go back to normal, I will be calmer and less grabby about everything.

Definitely psychomath. I’m not sure how though.
My children don’t want to home ed permanently, with the exception of one who I will consider it for.
I’m going to have to go back to study and some kind of work in future, I can only hope that working from home will be possible after this.
Don’t think I can opt out of kids seeing friends etc or deny them extra curricular activities.

Me. But terrified for what's going to happen to us financially. Never realised quite how stressed out I was by school run and dropping dh to and from station plus pt job, I feel relieved not having to do it! Having a nice time pottering about looking after my young dd.

I truly wish I didn't have to ever have to work again, but at the same tine praying my job is still there come June.

For me it has been time to reflect on what is important in life.

To be appreciative we are safe, have food, good neighbours and that not everyone is so lucky.