Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Don Turpin posed a question yesterday:

When this is all over, how would you like your life to be changed from the old when we do get our lives back after the pandemic?

Which generated some thoughts in me, not really toward how I would like my life to be changed, but more toward how my life will change.

If I may digress just a little, I'll observe that the "war" word is being used far too much and far too erroneously. "It's like a war zone." "This is a war." Etc. People who talk like that are, I think, people who have not seen a real war close up. I'd prefer that people would reserve the "war" word for, well, war.

What we have here is a very stressful time for most people. One might say the situation is traumatic. Following that line of reasoning, then, it's logical to expect, when this is all blown over, post-traumatic stress syndrome in many, if not most, of the people who survive.

It's well-known that our parents who lived through the Great Depression were changed by it. I believe that we will be permanently changed by this pandemic, and in ways that we cannot, with any accuracy, predict.

That is not to say that we can't effect some changes by willing those changes. So, circling back to Don's question: How would you like your life to be changed?