“I can describe my experience with this quarantine as having done a total 180. I initially thought nothing of it. For a while, I really didn’t think it was going to get that bad. I think I may have been in denial. I was abroad in LA for my final semester and I was adamant about staying there. Over spring break, I took a trip to San Francisco and that was when it all started to get bad. But I was still thinking optimistically and as if people were either too scared or not scared enough. I tried to be in the middle. Then I was forced out of my living situation and had to fly back home to Miami. That was the moment I started to actual realize this was going to be bad. I was pissed about having to leave, but it also made me understand the actual horror of the situation. 

I like to still think optimistically about all this. I really don’t think it’s going to change our society that much. I think there may be some changes in social behavior, but I really think that people already miss interactions and everything pre-quarantine that most people will go back to pretty much the same as they used to. I think people will be safer in general, but not to the point that there will be a drastic shift in society. 

I think the biggest effect this quarantine has had on me is creatively. I find every day that I want to write or make something, but I lack the inspiration. I thought that being cooped up for a while would help me write and create. I thought it would be the perfect time for me to buckle down. Now I’m realizing I draw all my inspiration from social setting and social interactions, so the quarantine is of no help. Yet, I’m still trying to write always, no matter what.”