A lot of adults in the United States, myself included, are now confidently counting down the weeks until we’re fully inoculated against COVID-19. As fun as fantasizing about and even planning a glorious summer surrounded by loved ones might feel, experts recently told VICE that staying somewhat present is a good idea. What’s more, doing little activities and setting small goals will likely help the time until you and your friends are vaccinated go by faster and maybe even keep vaccine FOMO at bay.

“The desire to squeeze some juice out of an objectively terrible year is strong. Something about it feels like winning: What’s more powerful than emerging from a year of prolonged, acute stress somehow looking better, instead of worse? It would be satisfying, in a narrative sense, to be able to say you experienced some sort of personal growth as the world shut down and burned.  It also feels deeply unrealistic, and like an impossible standard. Never mind that there’s almost no healthy way to drastically change your body composition between now and this summer, there’s something twisted about feeling pressured to showcase physical improvement after a year in which survival was at the front of everyone’s minds.”

So, if “getting hot” is the last thing you want to do right now—because you know on some level that it’s not a healthy move for you, or because you’re simply already hot—but you want to do something that’ll keep you entertained, give you a sense of accomplishment, or just make the time between now and the 4th of July fly by, here are a bunch of things that are neither “get hot” nor “make sourdough” to do until it’s safe to go out into the world again.

Say good-bye to this year.

Invest in your relationships with friends/family/the people you live with.

If you have the emotional bandwidth to receive a new skill, learn something tiny or complete a small project.

54. Look at your home/space through the fresh eyes of someone who hasn’t been in it in a year or two. Is there anything you’ve done that is very functional for living your entire life at home that you’ll want to change or rearrange? Start a list so you can easily tackle everything in the last couple of weeks before you’re fully inoculated.

Source: Vice News

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