I unironically loved the pandemic for being able to progress some of my hobbies

Being able to throw myself into making music for hours without a drained social/mental battery and basically nothing to interrupt me helped me do more in a year or so than I’d managed to find time for in a decade. I also got back into enjoying long-form games that I’ve not been able to make time for outside of the pandemic. The few I’ve started since I’ve had to put down for extended periods of time and that’s kinda killed my momentum. I also read the most I’d read since I was a kid.

So I know I could definitely be given an extra couple of days a week of free time, and would have zero issues filling that time and getting something positive out of it, even if I wasn’t allowed to leave my house.

I’m not saying there weren’t downsides, but more free time was amazing

If you had kids, then you had even less free time during covid.

Exactly. Still paid money and given all your time back too…and still didn’t do shit, huh?