Covid started in 2020 and it is now 2022.
The strange thing about covid nowadays is it’s still quite bad. There are thousands of cases every day and people dying from this illness every day, but the government is telling us everything is way better and that we can get back to our lives.
When covid first happened we all had to change the way we did things. At first, we had to wait in lines outside of the grocery store because they lowered the limit of how many people could be in the store. We all had to stand six feet from each other and we all had to wear a mask when we went places. They all sound like pretty small changes but they are pretty big when it happens fast and well for the first time ever. Because did we really think a pandemic was going to happen in our lifetime? I didn’t…
However, as I said the governments all around are telling us things are getting better and that all the rules that we had were now dismissed. We no longer have to be six feet apart, We no longer need to wait in lines and we don’t need to wear masks..wooooooo.
However, for me and maybe others, it’s weird going back to what it was before. Like I still don’t feel comfortable going into places without a mask. Unless I forget about it but even then I hate not wearing one. For the six feet apart well that is the easier one since stores always tend to be packed. But in my mind covid is still bad I mean when covid first started getting a thousand cases a day was huge and well scary and bad and now it’s a shrug of a shoulder.
Besides all the rules getting dismissed it’s trying to get back into the real world. I have anxiety and depression and covid has made it much worse than it has ever been before. When I sometimes go to Walmart or pet smart I get super overwhelmed and I really just want to get out of the store. I really want to go back to the world before and do all the things that covid has stopped me from doing but with my mental health taking a huge dent from being home for two years It’s going to be a slow transition back into the world.
Getting outside again and doing things is very important, especially for mental health and taking small steps is a huge thing to some but it will take a while for a lot of us to fully get comfortable again and to make our brain shut up. I wish more people would talk about this because to some it doesn’t seem all that important or big for others it’s a very big thing and it’s a very scary thing. We have been stuck in this weird world for the past two years and its kind scary going back to normal.
I am glad that everything is getting better because this whole covid thing sucked from the very start but it is also very stressful and uncomfortable. As I learned slow steps and every day is a new day as my mom or maybe my dad says or maybe google. Anways. Take your time. Small steps.
