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6 Habits from the Pandemic I’m Going to Keep
Not everything that’s happening is bad.
If you would’ve asked me last fall if I would be cancelling travel plans and hermiting away in my home, too stressed to go to the damn grocery store, I would’ve laughed and told you you had a bit too much champagne. But, this is the life we now all (well, some of us. *ahem* insane protestors) are facing. It’s a completely different world out there and it won’t go back to normal for years.
Where I live, we’ve begun to open up patios and some retail establishments. Non-emergency eye doctor and dentist appointments can now resume. Things are starting to looking normal. Sorta. While I think the patios are a bit too early in the game to be opened (and way too cold outside, still), we’re not doing so in a rash manner. It doesn’t mean that things are ‘back to normal’ just because we’ve opened the patio to drinks. The scene (something I’ve only viewed from photos online, thank you very much) looks like something out of a post-apocalyptic film: servers in masks and gloves, placing drinks and food in take-away containers to people spread out from one another, nary a car or pedestrian strolling by in the background, also wearing masks and gloves. It doesn’t look like a fun outing, but a stressful and strange one. A desperate grasp at what life used to be before it was turned upside down.
