So many vitamins, so little time
Picture this: we’re in wintertime with no sign of festivities or events around and we’re in Stage Four restrictions, again, no sign of significant social interactions or outdoor activity available. This image offers you a great idea of the grey-static background that these months have become. Every day feels like you’re staring at a broken TV: grey static and buzzing noises.
Routine has always been a thing, everyone goes to work and back home every day or so, but people could somehow break the routine. At least, they had opportunities to do so. Even just walking past a shop and deciding to enter, or feeling adventurous and ordering a different coffee at the usual café…
When none of that is possible and you end up doing the same things day after day, you can imagine how certain thoughts, despite being completely normal, end up taking up much more space than what they would in a non-pandemic situation.
I’ll give you an example:
Months ago, I made myself a cup of tea and I had to slightly move one of my vitamin jars on the table next to the sofa to fit the cup. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Weeks ago, I moved desk at work and I had to relocate a few tubs of vitamins and herbal stuff. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Last week, my mum sent me some remedies to cure anything I might have mentioned in the past year. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Since then, I noticed how my existing cute medicine box is not big enough. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Now, I’ll go ahead and ask you to put all of these minuscule thoughts about vitamins altogether, as fluorescent thoughts among the static grey.
Overwhelming.
I am amazed by how everything I seem to think of is the amount of vitamins I own. I feel like I have vitamins everywhere and anywhere I look there’s a jar of something!
Jars at home, jars at work, jars in another room at home, jars in my bag while commuting to and from work … They’re everywhere!
Is this normal?
I remember the good old times when all I needed was face moisturizer and plasters, and they would fit into my Hello Kitty medicine box.
Now I have to buy a real box for my medicines.
And use them, too.
The ‘Wow I have so many vitamins’ feeling, quickly turned into ‘How did this happen?’
On one hand, I am glad almost any adulting pain I experience can be fixed with some sort of concoction. On the other hand, I was not ready to feel like everything I have time for, outside of my usual routine, revolves around trying to fix myself.
Needing an aspirin because of heavy partying? Expected.
Planning a trip to flavour-town and packing some Imodium? Good idea.
Taking a handful of assorted tablets after every meal for things that may or may not affect you, but you’d rather not find out? Welcome to 30.
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Routine has always been a thing, everyone goes to work and back home every day or so, but people could somehow break the routine. At least, they had opportunities to do so. Even just walking past a shop and deciding to enter, or feeling adventurous and ordering a different coffee at the usual café…
When none of that is possible and you end up doing the same things day after day, you can imagine how certain thoughts, despite being completely normal, end up taking up much more space than what they would in a non-pandemic situation.
I’ll give you an example:
Months ago, I made myself a cup of tea and I had to slightly move one of my vitamin jars on the table next to the sofa to fit the cup. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Weeks ago, I moved desk at work and I had to relocate a few tubs of vitamins and herbal stuff. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Last week, my mum sent me some remedies to cure anything I might have mentioned in the past year. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Since then, I noticed how my existing cute medicine box is not big enough. I thought: wow I have so many vitamins! When did that happen?
Now, I’ll go ahead and ask you to put all of these minuscule thoughts about vitamins altogether, as fluorescent thoughts among the static grey.
Overwhelming.
I am amazed by how everything I seem to think of is the amount of vitamins I own. I feel like I have vitamins everywhere and anywhere I look there’s a jar of something!
Jars at home, jars at work, jars in another room at home, jars in my bag while commuting to and from work … They’re everywhere!
Is this normal?
I remember the good old times when all I needed was face moisturizer and plasters, and they would fit into my Hello Kitty medicine box.
Now I have to buy a real box for my medicines.
And use them, too.
The ‘Wow I have so many vitamins’ feeling, quickly turned into ‘How did this happen?’
On one hand, I am glad almost any adulting pain I experience can be fixed with some sort of concoction. On the other hand, I was not ready to feel like everything I have time for, outside of my usual routine, revolves around trying to fix myself.
Needing an aspirin because of heavy partying? Expected.
Planning a trip to flavour-town and packing some Imodium? Good idea.
Taking a handful of assorted tablets after every meal for things that may or may not affect you, but you’d rather not find out? Welcome to 30.
Image: via
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