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Garrett Bucks's avatar

What do I need to never forget? I need to hold onto how it felt, when everything first started slipping away and it was suddenly unsettling to see another person on the street and my wife started taking three showers a day because we had no idea if her job in the hospital would leave our entire family at risk (fomites! we were so scared of fomites!). I need to remember how, in those early moments of loss and paranoia, it was so clear that the only thing I was longing for was other people. I wanted to talk to and learn from and hug and laugh overly loud around other human beings. Family, friends, strangers, whatever. When everything felt at risk, that's all I wanted. I didn't want a beer at a bar. I wanted a beer at a bar with people. I didn't long for the income from a conference speaking engagement. I wanted to be in a stupid, offensively bland hotel ballroom with other people. I didn't want a world without challenges. I just didn't want to navigate them alone.

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allison dwyer's avatar

I would hope that i never go back to hurrying everywhere. I have learned that we have too much stuff, too many choices, and too much superfluous in our American lives. We don't need it, and we aren't served by it. I, too, have gotten to know those close to me in a more profound way because we have been stripped of the niceties, conveniences...we kinda got back to the raw of who we are. I hope we don't go back to running to, from, and worse away from eachother.

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