Many people have fallen back to old interests and habits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s why it’s making you act like a teenager.
Since she graduated high school, Kayla Stetzel, a 26-year-old law student living in Chicago, hadn’t spent any significant time in her father’s house in Indiana. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Not wanting to spend months alone in her small city apartment, Stetzel decided to move back in with her father—and inadvertently found herself reliving her adolescence. Her electric guitar and The O.C. DVDs came out of storage. She adopted sleep and eating habits even a teenager would find indulgent. And she found herself studying for law-school exams in the exact same place she did her grade-school homework. “I’m stressed out about school and playing very angry rock and roll music in my basement,” she says. “It’s very surreal.” Stetzel isn’t the only person having a teenage rebirth. Waves of 20- ...
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