I'm sticking to the rules

[delightfuldaisy19]

As the title suggests - I'm basically following the rules.

However, it's mainly due to the fact that I'm 48, quite like staying in, my mother is on her own and lives round the corner (so it's very easy for her to join our bubble) etc etc.

Fucking hell - if I was in my teens, 20s, 30s, then this would be absolute hell and I doubt I would be as compliant. I have absolutely no desire to join the Stasi and tell on my neighbours/friends. Jeez, people having been trying their hardest for months and I'm really cross with the lockdown martyrs banging on about how flipping great they are for hanging off Boris' every word/whim/U-turn.

I'm 36 and I've kept to the rules. Maybe the the exception of going to over to mums to see the decorations in the garden today (We live doors away but can't see her house from ours), so kids wanted to see the decs. She stayed in the house and waved through the window but I'm fairly certain that wasn't allowed. I had to actually go there to drop off something food wise though so it wasn't a special trip.

I do think certain situations make it easier to follow the rules, we are pretty insular as a family and don’t really socialise so we find it quite easy. I can imagine how it’s much harder for younger people or those more social than us!

I’m in my 30’s, have pretty much stuck to the rules but today broke them slightly, we are in tier 2 (even after Boxing Day) so the risk is much lower. I have been sticking to rules because I’m a front line worker but I’m off work at the moment. I went for a drive this evening with a friend to look at Christmas lights and drop off some presents to a friend who is in crisis, I did wear a mask. I am missing people, I’m a single parent, my job isn’t very sociable and I spend 90% of my time alone (when kids are not off school), the thought of spending the next 3+ months in possible lockdown and not seeing anyone scares me. I know there are people who haven’t seen anyone since March and that truly awful.

I haven’t.

We have been sticking to them but it’s bloody hard. In our 30s but no kids yet and our social lives revolves around eating out, pubs and socialising out and about with friends...now also working from home all the time and while I know we are very fortunate it’s the stark change and lack of human contact that has really got to us...it’s hard but not impossible to stick to it...