You might feel like pulling your own teeth out is a better alternative to talking to your exes but for one bored student during quarantine, it was a bit of entertainment.
Rebecca Lockwood, 19, followed advice she’d seen on social media – treat isolation as an opportunity for self-growth.
She’d spotted a Kitty O’Meara quote making the rounds on Twitter: ‘And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still’.
The English and creative writing undergrad thought: who better to help her grow than her exes?
She explained in an article for The Tab: ‘The people who have experienced the worst of me are definitely the most qualified to tell me what went wrong and how to improve’.
The hard part was, she says, waiting for them to reply as she was unsure how they’d react.
‘It’s worth a try to see how I can be the best me I can be. Plus, I really didn’t have anything better to do – I was just so bored.’
Rebecca says it gave her a bit of a reality check as she realised how easy it is to block someone out of your life.
Call number one was with Jay, an ex-boyfriend of multiple months dating back to last year.
She’d broken up with him in bed.
When she called him last week, he admitted he had no idea who he was talking to because the number wasn’t saved.
Call two was with Tim – the pair had dated for a couple of months about three years ago.
Rebecca claims he was impossible to break up with – even when she lied that she was confused about her sexuality, he offered to work it out together.
But Tim ended up apologising to Rebecca as after she had ended things, he turned up at her house with a photobook of hand-annotated memories and flowers.
Call number three was a bit more like what you might expect from an ex.
Ed and Rebecca had met in school – he was also Rebecca’s first kiss, outside Greggs.
Rebecca claims the pair are still friends now, the pair often discussing Ed’s relationship with his boyfriend.
Too awkward to do the job herself, she had got one of her ‘scary’ friends to break up with Ed at the time.
Seeing as they’re now friends, Ed enjoyed the task, offering her three points of improvement:
He wrote: ‘One, confidence.
‘Two, you could have been a bit more passionate, a bit more affectionate.
‘And three, you just could have shown a lot more enthusiasm for the general experience of it all.’
Rebecca admits it had been hard to hear her character attacked, but she had asked for it.
She says it’s a good way to waste time and encouraged others to have a go.
‘They’re probably as bored as you, and might want to spend some time giving you feedback for this crucial period of self-learning.
‘And in a seemingly never-ending quarantine, what else do you have to do?’
We might suggest literally anything else.
Are you doing something unusual during quarantine? Email MetroLifestyleTeam@metro.co.uk to tell us more.
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