The opportunity to spend time getting to know yourself and understanding your motivations has been an upside of pandemic lockdown, according to Kate Ng from The Netherlands. She said accepting the curfew, knowing we just have to deal with it because there’s nothing we can do about it, makes it easier. “I can just get to know myself really well, get to know the things that make me tick and things that irritate me, and then I can manage better in my everyday life.”