What is like to live in lockdown Italy?

I think it’s high time i wrote an article for my English friends too, so there you go.

I think you have heard about the situation in Italy and if you didn’t get the chance, here I’m.

Well, it’s like to be in prison, a prison with all your things and stuff, a prison where you can sleep in your bed, you can use your computer and seat on your chair while watching the news. It feels like the country is sleeping and we don’t really know when we will be able to wake him up. The whole country is under quarantine, but for who have been in contact people the tested positive for Coronavirus there is the total isolation in their houses or rooms and that is my case!

it’s been my 11^th day of isolation in my room and I still have 4 days to go. Can you imagine living for 11 days in 15 square meters? Well, that’s what I’m doing and thank God I have interned by my side.

My daily routine consists in waking up to an empty room and wait until someone bring me a coffee to start the day, then I start studying until someone brings me food for lunch. After lunch I take a little rest cause even if you don’t do anything except from studying you are exhausted. After this break I start studying again until someone brings me the dinner or better, they leave everything outside the door of I room which I’m allowed to open just when there’s nobody on the other side. After dinner I used to watch some series on my pc and that’s my day and it repeats every single day. Even when my isolation will be over there will be the normal quarantine waiting for me, but hey, that’s fine., because I know that this is the right thing to do.

While forced home during this hard period for my country and for the whole world you learn to appreciate the simple things in life. You learn the importance of a hug and the enormous power that this simple gesture can have. But nowadays, this is one of the things that you give for granted. I know that, even if it is extremely boring staying home, I also know that this is the right thing to do now.

But I can tell you that this quarantine is leading to something good. During my breaks I’m seeing parents playing with their kids in their balconies, many parents are having the change of getting to know their children and while, on one hand, everything outside our homes stops, inside, on the other hand are bustling with life.

We must learn how to live in these hard times in order to thrive when this nightmare will end.