Three years after the world changed by a worldwide pandemic, I reflect back on the power of storytelling and how it helped me cope with two months of self-isolation in a room in London. Thanks to 55 days of daily entries, ‘The Quarantine Diaries’ became not only a book of quirky stories of a 29-year-old in her Saturn return, but also the caterpillar of the butterfly I am today. Thanks to storytelling, I discovered my true self.