The rational part of my brain does know that but I think the thought of doing back to work has the other part going a bit haywire especially with this latest mutation.
I was feeling very hopeful re vaccines etc just a few weeks ago but now I’m not so sure but wil need to wait it out and hope !
I think it's totally normal during all of this to get caught in a peaks and troughs way of thinking, but it's important to not lose sight of the overall progress that is being made even if it might not feel like that in your personal circumstances at the time and that will hopefully make things feel easier.
That’s true but for me on a ground level it feels very much like March. Stuck inside, kids off school, not seeing anyone outside of the home, stress.
I know the bigger picture is that we’ve made a fair amount of progress since March but on a day to day level this feels almost identical to March lockdown for me (and others I’d imagine). If that makes sense.
That makes sense, and I'm sure it feels that way for a lot of people.
There are just a lot of people (some of them on this thread) that seem to be struggling with things and seeing any light at the end of the tunnel but it is there. There are people voicing that we're never going to get life back again but so many of the things that we take for granted and are able to do in our lives (and are therefore missing a lot right now) never existed during the last pandemic, so not only did they get life back but it continued to improve and develop in the way it would without the pandemic having happened.
Pandemics end. It might not feel like it when you're trudging through it, but this will fade into a memory.