The pandemic and quarantine has really changed everyone’s routines. And it is true for my family as well. While all homebodies to a certain extent, we have slowly acclimated to this new routine. With the at home learning of the kids and the at home work of the parents, the end of classes in the spring bled into the habits that usually happen in the summer months out of school. That regularity and movement that resulted from the old routines make us uncertain of what the regular is now, with those routines set aside. Are we going back to what we were used to? Will we still see those beloved aspects in what we go back to?
I used to feel that I was acclimated to uncertainty. When you don’t remember all the details of something and rely on others to fill them in, you get used to the idea that you can’t be certain of everything. And build up trust with your friends’ memories and recollections. That trust made me certain of what was since I had stability in my job and home. That even if I didn’t remember all of the details, I knew that everything was there somewhere.
Now are we sure of where things have been? Everyone thought the American economy generally worked, but that was proven not to work. People thought that the government generally got stuff done, and now America hasn’t finished its first wave of Covid infections, while elsewhere countries had enough reduction of cases to get worried about the next wave of infections. The flood of information and lack of trust of experts has led to doubting everything that people see, no wonder that we are anxious. Nothing is certain. And people want to know, people want routines.