Comfortable Prison

Covid kind of put a hold on all things social. To increase these matters, school, such as our University of Kentucky, have placed restrictions on every kind of gathering, guests in dorms, where to sit anywhere on campus, etc. In doing so, us students are virtually confined to one place. 

The video you see here is my dorm room. I am in here just about all the time except to get food and an occasional Saturday when I might go golfing with some friends. It sucks, but it is my very own comfortable prison. From what I've seen and heard about prisons from movies, they are able to come out of their cells for meals and once a day for yard time. Similarly, I only come out of my room for meals at Champs, and a couple times a week to hang with friends off campus. I don't complain about it too much because I know it could be worse. I have my computer and constant internet access along with most of my belongings and my own shower with a roommate. I have been lucky enough so far to not have tested positive for the virus and therefore have not been subjected to not leaving my room at all and having food brought to me for 2 weeks. 

It is a good conversation starter though as it is usually my first response when friends or family back home call and ask how it's been. Then I continue on about the details of how much I can go out and do. Same conversation every time. My one critique however is with the restrictions of guests in other dorms. They originally said no guests for the first couple weeks and then we would be allowed to have visitors on like September 7th or something. Then they extended that date 2 weeks. Then they extended that date 2 more weeks again. It has now been a little over a month, and now I have lost all trust that they'll ever allow the guests. We are college students, we find a way to get together with our friends anyways. Would they rather us go out in public with even more people just to hang out? That's kind of the big question I always think about. And why try to keep our hopes up that we'll ever have guests when we know they'll probably push it back longer? It just doesn't make sense. 

Anyways, this is still my personal prison with only me and my roommate.