Work from home, boredom, and being at peace with yourself
During this corona epidemic, work from home is a regular thing. Maybe, it will be hard for some person, for example, the one who has kids in their home, and the one like me who live alone. No physical contact, every communication is done via the internet.
For a person like me, talk with people is an essential thing in everyday life. What will I get if I live the day without talking? And almost every day?
The first symptom was, bad temper. I became mad easily. The second symptom was, the feeling of not being loved. It feels like, no one wants to talk with me, despite this was because of the working situation. Then the last one, was eventually, loneliness. These attracted alcohol almost every night.
The key is to make yourself being at peace with yourself. The enemy resides in you, the feeling of loneliness, the feeling of uselessness, and so on. No one to blame.
I was an avid scale model hobbyist, mainly 1/32 aircraft model. So I resurrected that hobby out of me. I started to build 1/16 and 1/12 RC model. I also did some experiments to control the lights with a microcontroller. I slept at 2 AM almost every day, just tinkering on why the join between some parts are not aligned correctly, on why the code was not working correctly, on how to paint the model in the toilet so the neighbourhoods will not smell the paint, and so on.
This helped me a lot.
Being busy will make you forget those feelings, at least for a person like me.
The corona epidemic is still going on.