There are several things that can take a serious mental toll on people and in the last year and eleven months, I think we’ve all learned that lockdown is one of them. The only thing I will say about lockdown in any light of positivity is that it brought my family closer together in a time when we needed to be. But even then I regard lockdown as a form of mental torture as the effect it had on me was mentally devastating. I was turning 18 in May of 2020 and had to spend it away from my friends and stuck in my house. My friends and I are as close as brothers so what with them living in Dublin, I couldn’t see them and this stung quite a bit.
The rest of the year went near enough the same minus a literal handful of times over the year were I got to just be a normal 18 year old. 2021 on the other hand was worse. I had just romanticised the idea that 2021 would be a better year right off the bat and it was not. Between my school opening and closing every five minutes due to covid, my frustration with the speed of the vaccination rollout and the fact that I was still limited in seeing anyone just broke me. I truly felt like my freedom had been cut off and I couldn’t live a normal life but I am currently glad that I can share this experience after coming out the other side of it
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