This month feels like it started 3 years ago.
Today is the last day of the month - March 897th. Damn, this has been a long month.
I usually come up with some good pranks for April Fools, but this year, I've really got nothing. Just feel as though our world is adrift at sea, with no sign of where we're going, and no sign of where we've been.
A hobby of mine is writing screenplays. It's purely just a hobby. The 3-act structure, in short, is (1) plan for change, (2) experience change and adapt, and (3) resolution. A few weeks ago, I saw that as an analogy for the pandemic. I felt as though we were in the first act, and we'd know when we entered the second act when we started thinking "It is what it is."
We're there. It is what it is, for as long as it's gonna be. We've gotta be safe and smart every day.
I remember going out to eat for the first time after the towers came down. It was five days after. Sitting in a sports bar, TV's still on the news. Three tables over, I heard a couple of people laugh. Mentally and emotionally, it was like a time lapse of a seedling coming up from the ground. One of those things you just remember.
I know life will get back to normal. I also know it'll be a new normal, in ways we don't yet understand or anticipate.
I just hope the calendar flips a little quicker then.
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March 897th! Sure does feel that way! And sometimes I think "did this all really start just a couple of weeks ago?" 🤯😳
...it really is going to be the Cruelest Month this year...
