CW: Covid-19
According to my Facebook memories is has been one year of all of this. One year of zoom. One year of remote learning. One year of masks and hand sanitizer. One year social distancing and standing six feet apart. One year, of two weeks to flatten the curve. One year.
It feels like it has been about ten decades, and also only about ten weeks. Its weird to reflect on all of it because its sucked, but there has also been a lot of good within in all of it. I don’t want to do the whole thing over again, but I honestly don’t know if I would be anywhere close to where I am currently without all of it.
Something tells me a lot of people can relate to that sentiment. We all would prefer to not be living in a pandemic. We all would prefer not accidentally stumble over notebooks full of numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Yet the same time a lot of us have experienced growth in someway, and we don’t want to give that up.
Its tough to think about and really try to wrap your head around. Would you give up the cancelled things, for what you did instead? Would you rather be where you thought you would be a year ago, or where you are right now? Where do you think you would be if all of this hadn’t have happened? Who would you be if this never existed?
There’s practically nothing about my life that is the same as it was a year ago. I know plenty of people who can say the same thing. Some in a positive sense, going to grad school, new jobs, new relationships, new skills, new business and creative ventures. Some negatively, leaving school, losing loved ones, jobs lost, sickness, isolation and so, so, so, much uncertainty.
It almost feels like with vaccine roll outs, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. But even with my new Prozac prescription by heart and my brains till worry that it in fact a train coming down the tracks.
It’s been a year, of change, turmoil and growth. Here’s to the next one.
