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Returning to Normal?
Contemplations on reentry to the world post-pandemic.
The last 16 months have been trying for everyone.
In multiple ways, COVID-19 impacted all our lives. However, its impact isn’t over yet. Some think we’re through the tunnel. But most can see — while the light has gotten brighter and the end of the tunnel nearer — we’re not there, yet.
Because of this duality between those who believe it done and over — and those still being cautious — reentry into the world at large from partial, varying degrees of quarantine and social distance is having different impacts on everyone.
In guarding our physical health — and that of those we care about — there have been different tolls on our mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
If we disregard these — and the impact that the pandemic had on them — they won’t disappear. Thus, reentry to the world as it once was will be fraught with unnecessary difficulties.
But first, it’s important to acknowledge a key, unavoidable fact:
The world as it was is gone
In the 2001 version of Planet of the Apes, starring Mark Wahlberg, he manages to get back home after his ordeal on the aforementioned, ape-ruled planet. Following a violent, literal reentry, he…
