Dystopia is in details
So, ever since the country locked down, I've been delicately balancing severe executive dysfunction, resultant depression and all the fun side effects. ADHD services are not essential after all. My normal work-outs involve leaving the house and spending time with other people and there's only so long I can tolerate the same four walls before I start going bonkers. Add in that my circadian rhythm is apparently set to Alaskan time and it gets miserable.
My solution to all this has been to go running. At night. While using the Zombies!Run! app. If you're not familiar with it, it's a running/walking app set during a fictious zombie apocalypse and you play as Runner 5, the enigmatic runner who leaves the settlement of Abel to gather supplies and collect clues to figure out how the zombie virus came to be. It's normally a fun app but it's a very different experience when you're running on deserted, too-quiet streets and passing locked up buildings and abandoned parks.
The few other people who exercise at the same time are skittish and it's not unusual to cross the road to avoid people a hundred metres further ahead. At the same time, people genuinely crave human interaction so some people make a point of staying close enough to exchange a quick smile or 'Good evening'. There are more frequent police patrols, ambulances flashing through empty junctions and the taxis who are still rolling. Given that we live in a central urban region, it's really disconcerting. You can still hear people, through the walls and over the garden fences but it feels like they're living in another world.
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My solution to all this has been to go running. At night. While using the Zombies!Run! app. If you're not familiar with it, it's a running/walking app set during a fictious zombie apocalypse and you play as Runner 5, the enigmatic runner who leaves the settlement of Abel to gather supplies and collect clues to figure out how the zombie virus came to be. It's normally a fun app but it's a very different experience when you're running on deserted, too-quiet streets and passing locked up buildings and abandoned parks.
The few other people who exercise at the same time are skittish and it's not unusual to cross the road to avoid people a hundred metres further ahead. At the same time, people genuinely crave human interaction so some people make a point of staying close enough to exchange a quick smile or 'Good evening'. There are more frequent police patrols, ambulances flashing through empty junctions and the taxis who are still rolling. Given that we live in a central urban region, it's really disconcerting. You can still hear people, through the walls and over the garden fences but it feels like they're living in another world.
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