What do you miss the most?
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:37 pm
I keep hearing a steady drumbeat about relative normalcy by summer - maybe August? Maybe by then the combination of the virus starting to lack hosts, and other measures ramping up, will be enough. It's enough to make me wonder, what will I be happiest to have back in life when that occurs? Obviously the number one is seeing close family and friends, and being able to hug my parents and have my kids spend time with them. The desire to do this again after such a long difficulty is so great that it will probably divert us from many other things that could be happening in the post-covid time. Like, I want to have people over, but I'll be too busy hanging out with my parents and the kids.
I miss my kids being able to go to school - I love having them here and being around them more, but they need their friends and they need their activities. And I enjoy going and visiting and seeing those things.
I like the convenience of ordering supplies, and probably won't give it up when it comes to dry goods and heavy, boring things. But I miss shopping for fresh food. I long to examine the various fruits and vegetables, and look over the meat tray to see what looks appealing today. I want to be able to pick up a rotisserie chicken on my way home from work.
The people in my household desperately miss eating in restaurants. I don't miss this very much, but certain restaurants simply do not lend themselves to take out and those will be nice to visit.
I don't really miss seeing movies in a theater, but that's more or less because I'm old and there aren't too many movies I care about seeing in the theater anymore. It's not really a covid thing.
I miss going to the gym because I seem to have some psychological flaw that requires me to be guilted/goaded into working out daily by other people. I still think I could do it myself at home - last summer I was working out a lot, but things are just so difficult right now, I feel lucky to get through the day and have anything done that I need to get done.
I am very much not a salon type of person, but it has been well over a year since I had anything done to my hair, and it shows! Almost but not quite desperate enough to have someone in this household trim my hair. I don't think it's a very risky activity so as soon as my parents are vaccinated, I'm thinking about getting a haircut. It has never been this long in my entire life and it's awful. I am very tempted to just take the scissors to it at about chin length, but I know that can only end in tears and misery. It's so long now that I have to put it in a bun in order to function - even the ponytail is so long that it gets caught in things and creates problems. The other thing is that the more hair there is, the more independently intelligent and functioning it grows. It doesn't communicate with me so I'm not even sure what it wants, but it clearly doesn't want what I want, and I'm not sure how to persuade it. I only want nice things for you, hair. I just want you to be beautiful and shine. I don't want to hold you back. Why are you trying to develop independent powers anyway? For what purpose?
I miss my kids being able to go to school - I love having them here and being around them more, but they need their friends and they need their activities. And I enjoy going and visiting and seeing those things.
I like the convenience of ordering supplies, and probably won't give it up when it comes to dry goods and heavy, boring things. But I miss shopping for fresh food. I long to examine the various fruits and vegetables, and look over the meat tray to see what looks appealing today. I want to be able to pick up a rotisserie chicken on my way home from work.
The people in my household desperately miss eating in restaurants. I don't miss this very much, but certain restaurants simply do not lend themselves to take out and those will be nice to visit.
I don't really miss seeing movies in a theater, but that's more or less because I'm old and there aren't too many movies I care about seeing in the theater anymore. It's not really a covid thing.
I miss going to the gym because I seem to have some psychological flaw that requires me to be guilted/goaded into working out daily by other people. I still think I could do it myself at home - last summer I was working out a lot, but things are just so difficult right now, I feel lucky to get through the day and have anything done that I need to get done.
I am very much not a salon type of person, but it has been well over a year since I had anything done to my hair, and it shows! Almost but not quite desperate enough to have someone in this household trim my hair. I don't think it's a very risky activity so as soon as my parents are vaccinated, I'm thinking about getting a haircut. It has never been this long in my entire life and it's awful. I am very tempted to just take the scissors to it at about chin length, but I know that can only end in tears and misery. It's so long now that I have to put it in a bun in order to function - even the ponytail is so long that it gets caught in things and creates problems. The other thing is that the more hair there is, the more independently intelligent and functioning it grows. It doesn't communicate with me so I'm not even sure what it wants, but it clearly doesn't want what I want, and I'm not sure how to persuade it. I only want nice things for you, hair. I just want you to be beautiful and shine. I don't want to hold you back. Why are you trying to develop independent powers anyway? For what purpose?