In coronavirus isolation what existential thoughts occupy your mind?

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The same ones that always do. Coronavirus has neither stopped, hindered, nor accelerated my quest to understand existence in any way. For a brief period of time I wondered whether I would need to make a lifestyle change, but my job situation sorted itself out.

The thoughts normally happen just underneath the conscious, to emerge when I get prodded to write. In the last few years, I’ve moved from doing a great deal of meditation and trance work, to simply delegating it to the subconscious, experiencing less on the spiritual plane and more on the physical.

It’s a process of unification. I pendulum back and forth between spiritual and physical focus, in different ways. Writing has always been one of my outlets, but walking and thinking was often another big part of my journey. Walking primes the mind towards introspection.

I used to have an easy, repeatable, long walk where nobody would bother me, that I could do once a day, and collect all my spiritual musings all at once. Now I live in town and so I get bothered when I walk, and that destroys the purpose of walking, so I just don’t do it.

So Quora gets to receive the fruits of my inner labor. At some point I’ll do what most writers on other platforms do, and make my own platform. I’m a coder and so a simple blog won’t suffice, but a simple blog is probably what I’ll start with. I’ll migrate all my answers over, give them tags, make a few collections, and launch.

Finding the right muse all by myself is difficult. Left to my own devices, the things I’d write make sense and are relevant only to me. Quora keeps me connected to what other people want answers to. The platform will be built to attract an audience that can then provide the muse function that Quora does currently.

So I guess my current isolation existential musings are on how I want my written presence in the world to exist. Everything in my life happens easily, and on its own time.