My Experience With Omicron

The RT-PCR report came back positive at one in the morning on Sunday, January 29, 2022. That night, I wasn’t feeling so great. I had a slight fever and a little headache.

Since then, it has been a whole week. I don’t have any symptoms but I am utterly bored. After Tuesday, February 2nd, I have been completely fine. But then again, I still had to be isolated just in case I still had the virus because, of course, I didn’t want to infect anybody.

My main problem with quarantine was that I couldn’t see or talk to anybody. I’m so used to talking to my brother or my parents and when I was in quarantine, I was “cut off” from them which was quite difficult for me.

Two weeks before, my brother was also quarantined because he had COVID but he was doing all right in terms of staying alone in his room. At that time, I started to think about how it would be if I were quarantined. My guess was that I would have been alright because I would look forward to ending the quarantine.

This was surprisingly hard because I found that I was bored and tired and couldn’t focus much. A few times I tried to distract myself by doing some assignment or doing some math problem but I noticed that I couldn’t focus simply because I wasn’t feeling very motivated.

That comes to the next topic of quarantine: feeling motivated. In our daily lives, we get a lot of inspiration from the things around us. We sometimes look out the window, go for short walks, talk to the people around us to get that daily inspiration. Now, when you’re stuck in a room for a week with not much to do, where is that inspiration going to come from?

I was so glad when my quarantine ended on Sunday. I was almost bouncing off the walls in my house! I guess the most important thing to learn from this experience is not to take for granted the freedom to roam around even your own house!