Just Not The Same

We all know by now, with everything going on in the world, that life is just not the same as it once was.  We all yearn for a sense of normacly but at what price.  Are we willing to pay the steep price they want us to pay to get back to our normal lives.  And what constitutes as normal these days anyway.

Is it normal to wake up at 5 am and grind all day at work or school, come home stressed only to repeat the same normalcy day in and day out?  Is it normal to shop until your bank account screams at you?  Is it normal to never have anytime left in the month to spend time with loved ones?  I have to say, being on quarantine has defintely helped with those normal daily routines running a rat race.  Everyone seems to have more time on their hands now, we are all moving at a slower pace and there are no more excuses as to why we are so busy.  There's is nothing to do and nowhere to go.

On the other hand, it is not normal to not be allowed to visit loved ones.  It is not normal to not be able to head to a park or the beach.  It's not normal to wait outside a supermarket in an hour long line just to get inside to shop. It's certainly not normal not having the freedom to decide when to leave our homes, where to go and how to live.  Those small liberties have been slowly taken away for fear of a virus and we have unwittedly consented. This is our new normal.  And even when live resumes as it once was before, if it ever does, nothing will be the same.