Bad taste to enjoy lockdown

[schooba]

To think it's bad taste for people to enjoy lockdown?

I think some people are sleeping and in total denial to the damage of it.

You've got to make the best out of bad situation surely?

I am enjoying aspects of lockdown. I love the chance to slow down a bit as normally life is manic (largish wider family) , rushing here and there constantly, juggling all the time, both stressed with work. We still keep a paper home diary (quaint) and when I look at this time last year, every weekend was blocked out solid right through to August. Sort of nice but you don’t feel like that in the middle of it all.
But I would instantly swap it for no pandemic and my heart breaks for people who’ve lost family and friends or been terribly affected.

People are entitled to their own feelings, reactions and experiences. I do think it's slightly bad taste to parade your 'love of the lockdown' on social media when it must be clear that other people are struggling or ill. It's not a social experiment.

We were also enjoying the huge drop in pollution. Until twats starting to shit in parks and beaches, which short term is just as bad.

Taking positive action to help others, if you're fortunate enough to be able to, is a meaningful response to others' suffering. It's entirely possible to do this cheerfully.

Sitting around at home feeling miserable, supposedly on others' behalves, is pointless and self-indulgent.

The ability to make the best of any given situation, is one of the most powerful, valuable and attractive skills anyone can possess.

Nothing wrong with seeing the silver linings, or being grateful for what you still have.

That’s not incompatible with empathy with or compassion for those struggling with mental health, or with those who have been ill themselves or lost people either to Covid-19 or due to other difficulties exacerbated by the situation, or people working really hard whilst colleagues are furloughed, or those worrying for their future job security whilst being furloughed themselves.

As with everything in life, taking things too far in any direction or only seeing one point of view can leave a bad taste.

How on earth could it be ‘bad taste’ for people to be happy with their lives right now?

I do think it's slightly bad taste to parade your 'love of the lockdown' on social media when it must be clear that other people are struggling or ill.

but you could say that about anything: having a baby, enjoying a nice holiday, Christmas, a beautiful wedding day...

I'm trying to enjoy aspects of it as in our circs it's going to continue until September. The weather has made a huge difference to many people I think. If people's social media annoys you, you can just delete or snooze it? I have to snooze a very exercise-keen friend from time to time. Doesn't mean I resent her running up mountains (she lives right by some) but I feel exhausted reading about it.

I have NO problem saying this is the happiest I think I've ever been. If anyone feels I need to justify this - when everything goes back to "normal" for everyone else...and is forever...this brief bit of respite for me will be gone forever.

Being miserable won't save any lives or jobs.

Is it bad taste to enjoy regular life, just because some people dont or can't?

Skiing? Finding true live? Christmas? Having a baby? Having a job?

Sounds like folks should only enjoy and talk about the things you like and have.

I certainly hope nobody, literally NOBODY, says anything about enjoying anything once lockdown is over.

Enjoying lockdown isn't in bad taste...it's the "it's only been a few weeks, suck it up" reaction to those that are struggling with it that is in bad taste.

By that logic it would be bad taste to enjoy life when people are dying in war torn Syria, children are being trafficked in other countries, people in this country are living in poverty. Why do you get to pick which tragedy is worthy of a national response?

We all have empathy but it's impossible to feel empathy for every bad thing going on in the world, at the same time.

By keeping yourself happy you may be of better support to someone who isn't. If we all just focused on the suffering in the world, no one would get out of bed.

No of course it isn't bad taste to enjoy anything.
It would be bad taste to go on about how much you love lockdown to people who are miserable and having a hard time though.

Lockdown has brought some positives to my life. There are also horrible negatives but I make a deliberate effort to focus on those positives. It keeps me going and with poor mental health being a very real concern in this time that can only be a good thing surely.

I also try to watch as little news as possible and limit social media time. It's not that I don't care but honestly a lot of it isn't helpful or useful and I can't change it.

I don't watch the news either, I read a news website and pick what I want to read depending on my mood at the time.

It's not bad taste to enjoy it - we quite like it, apart from missing friends and family. But I think all the posts saying 'look how amazing lockdown life is' on Mumsnet and social media are in bad taste because lots of people are finding this situation very hard and can't enjoy it at all.

I agree with pp who makes s good point. People enjoy their lives despite the fact of wars, famines and the general suffering in the world at any given time. How is this different?

It's different because you know a lot of people are suffering as a direct result of the same thing you're enjoying. It's like saying you're glad of a recession where lots of people lost their jobs because you personally happened to make a lot of money from it.

By all means I think everyone should do their best to enjoy the situation they find themselves in - there are parts of all this that I like too - and in the privacy of your own head/home there's no need to think guiltily about all the people who are having a hard time whenever you feel happy about something. But it's in bad taste to bang on publicly and unprompted about how wonderful it all is, and to imply that you're somehow a stronger and more resilient person than someone who's struggling (as some people do, especially on here), failing to recognise that a lot of that is probably down to differences in circumstances.

You'll be glad to know that those roads will continue to be quiet because a lot of the people of furlough are unemployed and won't be going back.

And lots of people will be working from home. And people will decide not to go back to work. Maybe people have taken up cycling while furloughed and will cycle to work. Maybe they'll decide to work a different job instead. Myriad of reasons why the road is closed.

Thanks for the "saintly NHS" jibe too, not that I ever claimed to be saintly 🙄 all I'm saying is coronavirus and lock down has, on the whole, made my life more stressful and difficult, like most people's. If it makes my commute a little bit easier as a newer driver, I'm going to find the positives where I can. We can't wallow in self pity the whole time.

Myriad of reasons why the road is closed

I meant quieter 😂

By that logic it would be bad taste to enjoy life when people are dying in war torn Syria, children are being trafficked in other countries, people in this country are living in poverty. Why do you get to pick which tragedy is worthy of a national response?

Again, it's not that it's wrong to be happy when other people are suffering - that's completely normal and inevitable. It's in bad taste to broadcast your delight about the very thing that's causing their suffering to all and sundry, especially if no-one asked.

@DontGoJasonWaterfalls

Pay no attention. There's nothing selfish in being grateful for an easier commute! It's a ridiculous comment, but that's not unique on this thread.