5 Narcissistic Lessons From Lockdown
It’s time to get real honest
The great lockdown of 2020/21 has forced me to acknowledge some things about myself that I hadn’t really noticed before.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t some great confessional piece where I bare my soul and acknowledge terrible wrongdoing. Or maybe it will be. You be the judge.
Either way, here are five pointlessly trivial lessons I have learned during lockdown.
1 — I like TV more than I like my friends
I can count the number of times I spoke to my friends over the past 16 months on one hand. That includes in person as well as Facetime, Zoom etc. Turns out I’m really not that sociable a person.
I have, however, spent a lot of time with my TV friends — Jimmy McNulty, Michael Scott, Leslie Knope, Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace — they are the ones that got me through, and I love them for it.
This isn’t a new phenomena. By endlessly (re)watching my favourite shows I’m cosseting myself in a fluffy cocoon of normality, taking in warm shots of endorphins with every utterance of “It is what it is”, and “That’s what she said!”
I understand what this means; I’m just one of the masses. Never mind religion, streaming has become the opiate of the…
