Moving back home wasn’t in my plans in 2020.
I was working in a big company in the city after landing the position two years back.
My goal was to keep saving a purchase a loft in the area. Work went on well until news of a pandemic started spreading. The Coronavirus seemed distant at first, but one day we went home and never got back to the office. To implement the work from home policy, our bosses took the chance to cut out a few positions. My job ended up on the chopping board, and I was laid off. The moment I told mom, she asked me to move back home. We’d been hearing news of lockdowns, and she didn’t want me living alone, isolated from everyone I loved. I packed up my apartment, got out of the lease and went to stay in my old bedroom. That summer, we were indoors most of the time and required the cooling system to keep working. The heat was extreme, and mom found herself cranking up the central AC each day. At the end of the month, the electric bill had shot up because of the cooling system. Despite the risk, mom had to call the HVAC company in the area for assistance. She wanted to hire an AC repair person to come and service the cooling system. She worried that the unit would continue using more energy to cool the house and raise the energy costs in our home. The AC repair person came, and we took precautions while he inspected and serviced the cooling system.