A real one.

Maybe we can see it now, or maybe we can't. But there really is a pandemic, and it's already here.

Have you noticed that there is less uniqueness in things these days, especially in taste?

Everyone does the same thing.

Everyone is wearing the same thing.

Everyone is trying to do the same thing.

We are all starting to look like copycats of one another.

But how did we get here?

The people we subscribe to influence us, and they are influenced by the same things.

The internet makes you think what you saw, or what seemed to like, is actually yours.

You start wanting to feel like a certain person, to be like them, to carry their energy or aura.

Then comes the pressure from the internet to try something you genuinely do not like.

Slowly, you start outsourcing your decisions to someone else's takes.

The more you continue, the more you outsource decisions, even for smaller tasks.

You start making decisions based on what someone said, and not on what I want or I need.

You start losing trust in yourself.

Then, a few years later, if you're self aware, you struggle to find your way back to yourself because nothing just seems to make sense anymore.

Your life starts to feel like borrowed experiences, and everything feels disconnected from your soul.

Maybe that's the pandemic.

Not that everyone is becoming the same.

But that we're slowly forgetting how to become ourselves.