Two Wheels To Nowhere

Pandemic Pondering ~ It’s interesting how this pandemic and related restrictions are wearing on me. It may, in part, be my age, too. I think I have less energy now. To work all day and still have something left over to focus on reading in the evening doesn’t happen very often, for me. My brain is pretty much fried by five pm. Many days, I wake up and it feels like Groundhog day when I get up, shuffle to the bathroom, splash cold water in my face and look, bleary eyed, into the mirror. Again. Walk to work on the quiet streets, past the empty high school, past some recently shuttered shops and plant myself into my desk in a mostly empty office area. Weird. I never really getting used to it. Weekly trips to the COVID testing centre for my nasal swab. It’s always front of mind for me that THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Kind of a thirteen month continual low level anxiety caused by the uncertainty of it all. Unsettling, to say the least. I’m making the best of it but I am not getting used to it, that’s for sure. I am encouraged that there IS light at the end of the tunnel, though. Vaccines are rolling out, slowly here. Just heard today that 32.4% of Canadians are now vaccinated with a first shot. That’s mildly encouraging. And to see how countries that are ahead of Canada are now opening up is also encouraging (except for Israel today; that’s discouraging). All that gives me hope that we are seeing the end of this in sight in the coming (6? 12? 18?) months. When it’s over, let’s all get together for a pint and a walk on the beach. Okay?