Back To Normal

I hear people say they wish we could get back to normal.  I wonder if we are having short term memory loss?  What was normal like before Covid 19?  Some good things yes, like a paying job.  But a lot of normal for many people was a frenzy of over activity, trying to get it all.  Children were run from one thing to the next so that they would not “miss” anything.  Being bored was equivalent to being a failure, as if boredom could never be a part of 21st Century life.  People did not get enough sleep, they overindulged in sports on TV and read too few books.  We did cameos with member of our own families, and so on.  So what normal do we want to get back to?  Is the normal American life a frenzy of fear that we may miss out on something?  Advertisers are most often showing families having fun and being fulfilled by going places, any places but being together in the home.  Let us learn what we can learn from this virus which has vanquished our old way of life.