Self-quarantine as self-improvement💛

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The conditions faced by all citizens of the world including Indonesia today are indeed severe. Where we are required to do social distancing or self-quarantine until this pandemic really disappears from this earth. There are joys and sorrows that can be felt, especially for me personally. As a person who tends to be extroverted, I feel this demand is really torturing me. Therefore I can no longer hang out with friends, just go out looking for some foods or meals, go to the mall or other activities that spend a time in the outside. It turns out I am not alone, many of my friends also feel the same way. I know that from the Instagram updates my friends often complain about the demands of self-quarantine or #dirumahaja.

Not only I lose my activities outside, but I also lost the moment of studying in class with my friends. Everything is online; ranging from assignments to teaching and learning activities are also online. It feels really different when I usually can joke around when I meet friends on campus, now I can only exchange messages through social media.

Apart from the sadness that I experienced during #dirumahaja apparently I found the positive side of this demand. Actually it also depends on how we react, right? The most common thing I do besides doing online tasks is cooking! Old hobbies that had stopped because since in the boarding house I'm rarely to do cooking because junk foods are always steal my attention to buy 😅.

Since the government recommends #dirumahaja be, as a good citizen, I obey this rule. I assumed (even though I didn't carry the virus) that I was carrying the virus so I didn't want to spread it to the people around me. So, the day after the lockdown was decided in my hometown, the next day I immediately stocked up some food ingredients. Just calm down guys, I'm not panic buying anyway. I always have in mind if punic buying really give a bad impact to the society. Besides it can waste our money to buy the unnecessary food's stocks, it also losing anyone chance to buy their needs that they really need it.

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Now, I always learn new recipes that I have never tried while I was at boarding house. My mother was also surprised, it turns out I can make a delicious foods even though it is just simple food. Actually I really enjoy cooking. I have a dream to be a good mother who can cook any foods for my future family. In this moment, I have a big chance because I have more time to cook and become not so lazy to begin cooking again. As I mention earlier, the laziness in the boarding house make me stop cooking. Eventhough I also have time to cook and the equipment for cooking in the boarding house also supported. I also become a hard-thinker to dicide to buy some foods at the outside. Eventhough the sophisticated era offers an online-food delivery, I don't want to take the high risks of the food's hygine. So, home-cooking is become my very enjoyable things to do during this hard moment.
 

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Besides cooking, I also found a variety of joy that was no less exciting when I was not #dirumahaja. From this demand, indirectly it offers us to have a quality time with family. From the call to remain #dirumahaja, of course, I will really appreciate the time we have with family. From the previous custom where I often spend time doing activities outside the home, this time I always spend every second, minute and time for home. Just talking or exchanging ideas about the issues that are sticking out now, it's very valuable if we can do it every day. We also increasingly appreciate the existence of our family as our front guard to complain when we have life problems. I personally feel like that, when I can freely pour out all my complaints with my own mother. Usually, I can only tell it only by telephone, now I can directly face to face stories and get the best solution for each of my problems. Then I can also know firsthand how dizzy my mother is when I have to wrestle with her work which requires her to keep working half a day.

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Then, I also really pay attention to the cleanliness of myself and my family. From before, I rarely washed my hands clean, then took care of myself when I pressed to go out to buy groceries and regularly clean the house. Then I also sort out the dishes I make which tend to cook healthy foods to avoid diseases that tend to decrease the immune system or the immune system. Before I always eat junk food, unhealthy food, and other unhealthy meals, now I always get used to cooking healthy food for my family. I also do not want bad things to happen to my family, especially health problems in consuming food. As suggested by health experts on social media, food is also very influential on our health. For this reason, I am very grateful for the existence of this pandemic because I'm always thinking about consuming healthy foods to keep my family and my immune system health.