Baby, It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over: 5 Things That Will Change When The World Goes Back to “Normal”
“When things go back to normal and we head back to the city”, my husband started to say and the rest of the sentence will forever remain a mystery to me because that’s when my heart stopped.
“How can we even think about the future when I never cleaned my house, lost 50 pounds, finished my novel or successfully made even one loaf of sourdough?”, I wondered. And yet, it was far deeper than that.
A million other things ran through my head, some hopeful, some heartbreaking. And yet, there it was, the truth in some weird way. Life will eventually go back to some resemblance of what it was before. Or will it? Over the next week, I’ve continued to think on how our lives have changed so drastically and what any sort of new normal will look like. Will the new “B.C” be thought of as “Before Covid” and then what would the “A.D.” part mean?
I was hoping 2020 and all that happened during that year, would somehow magically be fixed when the clocks struck midnight on New Year’s Eve. But here we are in this odd “in between” where many people are saying things may get worse before they get better. But that said, you can almost see a glimmer of hope in the not too distant future. Only what will that be?