Will I ever get back to "normal life?" Prior to Coronavirus, I spent a lot of time at parks, restaurants, movie theaters, concerts, church and more. In the first few weeks of lockdown, i felt stifled by all of the restrictions. Now, I still miss all of those things, but I've come to appreciate the quarantine routine. We do the same things each week. We have a pattern that is working. I think the outside world will seem loud and chaotic after months at home. Will I ever want to wear shoes again?
It's been five years, but I still feel the lingering effects of the pandemic. For some reason I really enjoyed the solitude and loneliness it brings, and so I'm still isolating myself from the outside world, even though the pandemic is pretty much over now. The world has moved on without me, and I'm left in the middle of nowhere, still having an insurmountable inability of processing what happened.