I feel a bit of angst in the air as I meet and talk with many people. Why the angst? I think it's a bit of a fallout after the grave COVID related limitations we faced in the years past. During that time the culture shifted a lot, and now people are waking up to those changes both positive and not so positive. For example, many elderly who stay close to home benefitted during COVID limitations since neighbors, friends, and family may have been home more and had more time to visit. While small business owners may have lost out on profit, some gained via availalbe loans and time which may have given them a reprieve from the heavy work schedules they typically face and added time to update their business spaces. Now it's back to those busy schedules. And for people like me, the mostly at-home schedules of many friends and family members made it easier to get together since people could more easily alter their schedules, but not that people are back to their busy work and family schedules, it's more difficult to make plans.
In many ways, it's the post COVID limtations adjustment period. The ideal is to adjust in ways that maintains the best of life before COVID as well as some of the positive changes that occurred during COVID. For example, my friends and I spent a lot of time getting together in active, outdoor activities during COVID. That was positive and I'd like to see that continue. I also did a lot of gardening during COVID which I want to continue too. Before COVID we traveled more, and I'd like to bring a bit more of that back into my life.
There will be angst as we adjust to this new period of life. The fallout from COVID will bring some good and some not so good. We'll have to be patient with one another as we adjust and create new schedules and ways of being. Onward.