Lockdown things to do to stay mentally stable (slight exaggeration)

Yes we are in lockdown and it is perfectly understandable if you are at a stage where you are lying on your bed and you want to do something, but you don’t want to. You are feeling bad lying around doing nothing but you don’t want to do anything. So here’s a carefully compiled list of things to do, even if you don’t want to.
1. Cooking – ingredients may be limited. But that’s exactly what watching Masterchef – limited ingredients rounds – has prepared us for. Also, when else are you going to get the opportunity to justify watching TV?
2. Plants – spend time with your family and I mean your WHOLE FAMILY, including your plants. I have recently been given the mammoth task of watering our balcony – meaning jungle – of plants. Trust me I didn’t like it at first, I just did it by routine. However, now you may catch me having a long philosophical conversation with a Ficus.
3. Books – don’t you just love being able to shoot the names of prize-winning books you have read when your friend is going on about some designer shoes. This is the perfect time to stock up on ammunition by reading all the books on the ‘Goodreads’ list.

It happens to be that it took me 25 days to list the 3 vital things to do during a lockdown. So all I can suggest now is that do these and any of the other goals you have and make them into a routine. You probably will HATE your routine and will want to throw a few punches here and there. But at least you will go to bed satisfied that you have done something and perhaps, as my Ficus says, you may just end up enjoying it.

My mother says this plant is not a Ficus. I would like to still call her that as she, the Ficus, doesn’t mind.