Guess Who Are Teaching Americans How To Handle Confinement? None Other Than Released Prisoners!

We are in strange times compounded more by the coronavirus crisis. The solution is staying at home, social distancing and protecting everyone around us.

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Confined to our homes, it isn't easy to kill time. We need ideas to ensure we make good use of the time. In the US, people are being given lessons as to how to handle confinement. Surprisingly by ones who know all about it - prisoners.

Netflix, Amazon Prime, gaming and what not, people doing all of it to get rid of boredom. But even all of that gets monotonous after a time. So, the account of two prisoners tell how to kill time is the motivation we all need.

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Daniel Rodriguez was under house arrest for months. Let's us not talk about as to why, rather we should focus on how he dealt with it.

He told BuzzFeed, "I cleaned everything from top to bottom. Everything in the house was already clean but I cleaned it again. I was trying to give myself structure, a new routine. In prison, everything is structured, when you eat, when you can go to the yard. I did a lot of reading. I did my resum¨¦, put all my school records together. The internet was new to me. I was never part of that world when it was introduced, so everything was like new to me.

Well, it is new for us too. We will get used to our new routines and find ways to get over the current coronavirus crises.

Another familiar with confinement is Angel Rodriguez, who served 18 years in prison.

"There were many times when I liked lockdown because I loved it to write. I knew, OK, we¡¯re going on lockdown for one or two weeks, I don¡¯t have to worry if they were going to pop the doors, I could just write straight through. Just write and write and write," he said to BuzzFeed.

So, there you go. Pick up a new hobby, read, write, and do whatever else yo want. But don't wander outside. Stay safe and indoors.