PANDEMIC - TRAVELLING TO MARS

Where you was a year ago at this time?

I was at home in voluntary self-quarantine (starting 25 February 2020) just like today and all of 2020; I'm a risk category and if I get covid I'm going to die. I've calculated that of the last 365 days, I was away from home continuously for about 500 hours (about 20 days).

What am I missing?

Considering that I don't live alone, I already worked from home, that I live in the hills outside the city in a beautiful place (from my windows you can see the woods and the river), that my old "friends" and the people who "loved me" had already been minding their own fucking business for years most of the time and didn't show up even when I really needed them (what "big friends" eh! ), that the shops in the city (Bologna Italy) 20 minutes' drive from where I livedo NOT sell anything I would like to buy (what I would like to buy I can find online) and that all my close relatives have been dead for years (except for a cousin of my age who is the only one I see and hear), the only thing I miss at most is an occasional dinner out, which I can actually do without.

What bothers me a little is that I have a beautiful café just near my house, so when there is a heavy lockdown I can't have a breakfast there, which is the only luxury I take, but in the end I save money.

I guess given the vaccination trend in this country, I'll be spending most of 2021 like 2020.

For me, taking a trip to Mars, locked up for more than 8 months in the spaceship, would be a laughing matter.