After my country got into lockdown for the second time this year, my mood is becoming worse every single day and flashbacks of normal life have been haunting me in my sleep almost every night. I didn't think it would affect my feelings about fanfiction, but the reason it did is because... it doesn't seem realistic anymore.

Yeah, I know. Fanfics are stories, they're not supposed to be real.

But the truth is, I can't really do anything anymore without being reminded of normal life. Unless they are specifically set during quarantine or the pandemic, nobody wants their story to involve Covid-19 measures and precautions, that would just ruin the mood. So, writing all the scenarios in my head that are ideally set in the world before 2020, only makes me nostalgic and reminds me of how much fun I would have in college before March happened. I currently don't feel this as much when reading other people's stories, but that may very well happen soon.

Rumor has it that 2021 will be a hopeful year, and that we may have a vaccine by February. We are also expected to return to semi-normality at least by spring of next year. Of course, I don't believe we will be stuck like this forever. Right now things seem to be getting better considering cases have been reduced drastically over the last few days, so I expect my mood to write to return soon.