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Are You Feeling Invisible? You’re Not Invisible and You’re Not Alone
Feeling invisible in a world with nearly 8 billion people is not weird or abnormal.
The past couple of years has had an impact on everyone.
It varies from person to person — but nobody has been excluded. Directly or indirectly, the past couple of years has been like no others before them.
While that’s always the truth when it comes to the passage of time — the past 2 years have been overwhelming in all the ways they’ve been unexpected.
Did you expect a global pandemic to shut the world down for a month or two in 2020? After that, did you expect we’d still be altering everything we do because COVID hadn’t gone away two years later? Did you foresee essential workers, minimum wage workers, and teachers walking away after decades of abuse?
I didn’t.
Many of my friends spent a year working remotely. Several of them, then, had to return to offices — despite the pandemic not being over and proving the commute and office were unnecessary. Now they are extra-fatigued because as COVID surges come and go, offices close again for a week or two.
And don’t even get me started on schools and how much abuse teachers and the like are…
