Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you?
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Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you? I am finding them sad yet treasured, a savoring of the high notes of once ordinary things.
Like just now, remember an evening in a darkened cozy airline cabin, sitting in a vacant seat next to a once-friend I had happened to see on the same plane while flying home from a business trip.
It’ll never happen to me again.
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Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you? I am finding them sad yet treasured, a savoring of the high notes of once ordinary things.
Like just now, remember an evening in a darkened cozy airline cabin, sitting in a vacant seat next to a once-friend I had happened to see on the same plane while flying home from a business trip.
It’ll never happen to me again.
@edsuom I occasionally get smacked with the memories, most often when consuming media from the Beforetimes - it's all conflated with (largely processed, but still) grief around family who were around back then and aren't now. The times it gets me are when it almost feels possible to crawl through the screen back into that era. In-person classes. Restaurants. Travel. Coffeeshops. Bars. The sweep and press of crowds fitting the idiom 人山人海, "human mountain, human sea."
I am an extrovert. I was **absolutely not** made for this. But I'm also moderately good at math and biology…
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Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you? I am finding them sad yet treasured, a savoring of the high notes of once ordinary things.
Like just now, remember an evening in a darkened cozy airline cabin, sitting in a vacant seat next to a once-friend I had happened to see on the same plane while flying home from a business trip.
It’ll never happen to me again.
I mostly miss the visits to a friend's home (or vice versa) and that I did not have to fight with my employer about trying to stay healthy.
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Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you? I am finding them sad yet treasured, a savoring of the high notes of once ordinary things.
Like just now, remember an evening in a darkened cozy airline cabin, sitting in a vacant seat next to a once-friend I had happened to see on the same plane while flying home from a business trip.
It’ll never happen to me again.
Dancing and clubbing. We didn't get out like we used to but we still tried. In late February 2020 we were at a work conference's after-dinner party. During a break I checked my phone and there were all these crazy stories about a lockdown in Italy. Didn't realize that that would be our last dance.
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Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you? I am finding them sad yet treasured, a savoring of the high notes of once ordinary things.
Like just now, remember an evening in a darkened cozy airline cabin, sitting in a vacant seat next to a once-friend I had happened to see on the same plane while flying home from a business trip.
It’ll never happen to me again.
@edsuom There’s so much grief piled on grief that it’s hard to process. One thing I really miss is concerts. Even though I never did love the experience of being packed together with other humans in a small venue, because it’s now impossible, I’m nostalgic for those experiences.
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Fellow travelers on the lonely #CovidIsNotOver road…how are your memories of the Before Times hitting you? I am finding them sad yet treasured, a savoring of the high notes of once ordinary things.
Like just now, remember an evening in a darkened cozy airline cabin, sitting in a vacant seat next to a once-friend I had happened to see on the same plane while flying home from a business trip.
It’ll never happen to me again.
@edsuom Maybe it's because I'm a misanthrope at heart but I've rather welcomed some (not all) of the changes.
I have a hearing disability and do NOT miss having to eat in restaurants, bars, concerts, etc and be unable to hear anything properly. It's been a relief to not have to subject myself to those experiences.
I appreciate how the shift to doing more socializing online has brought me closer to friends who don't live in the same city as me. I remember how I felt disconnected from them and how I missed them, and now I don't
I don't miss getting colds or the flu!
I appreciate how much more streamlined it is to work from home now! I remember how hard it was to set up videocalls for meetings pre-pandemic and how much resistance there was to that, and nowadays it's a pretty smooth process to set that up.
I'm ambivalent about working from home -- I like having my cat cuddling me while I work, but I was more productive in the office for some tasks since I had fewer distractions there.
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Dancing and clubbing. We didn't get out like we used to but we still tried. In late February 2020 we were at a work conference's after-dinner party. During a break I checked my phone and there were all these crazy stories about a lockdown in Italy. Didn't realize that that would be our last dance.
@KanaMauna Sigh. Thanks for this, which brings another sharp bittersweet memory: February 2020. I’m in the best shape of my life after a year of weightlifting. I’ve finally realized the looks I’m getting from women (and a few men) are not because of mustard on my sweatshirt from lunch. Watching a play with my wife to my left and a chatty woman who keeps looking down at my non-existent gut to my right. Enjoying the moment after a lifetime of being an out-of-shape nerd.
Now back to being the out-of-shape nerd. Except older, worn out, used up, and cast aside. 2019 sure was nice while it lasted.
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I mostly miss the visits to a friend's home (or vice versa) and that I did not have to fight with my employer about trying to stay healthy.
@ABScientist Those visits sure were nice, weren’t they? Just sitting there, idly chatting about the day’s events. Maybe some cake and ice cream. Not one single thought about the air we are sharing.
And employers have really shown how awful they are, generally. I’ve been retired for years, but the stories I read are horrific.
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@edsuom Maybe it's because I'm a misanthrope at heart but I've rather welcomed some (not all) of the changes.
I have a hearing disability and do NOT miss having to eat in restaurants, bars, concerts, etc and be unable to hear anything properly. It's been a relief to not have to subject myself to those experiences.
I appreciate how the shift to doing more socializing online has brought me closer to friends who don't live in the same city as me. I remember how I felt disconnected from them and how I missed them, and now I don't
I don't miss getting colds or the flu!
I appreciate how much more streamlined it is to work from home now! I remember how hard it was to set up videocalls for meetings pre-pandemic and how much resistance there was to that, and nowadays it's a pretty smooth process to set that up.
I'm ambivalent about working from home -- I like having my cat cuddling me while I work, but I was more productive in the office for some tasks since I had fewer distractions there.
@ptinou Thanks for this perspective! It’s valuable to have alongside the lamentations of the extroverts. There are things in your comment that resonate with me but these six years have been very long for me indeed.
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@edsuom There’s so much grief piled on grief that it’s hard to process. One thing I really miss is concerts. Even though I never did love the experience of being packed together with other humans in a small venue, because it’s now impossible, I’m nostalgic for those experiences.
@feisty_lemming The Eagles, 2019. Standing with the crowd trying to record every second of “Hotel California” in my memory. So glad I witnessed those old guys bringing their talents out for us. Two hours that will never happen again.
It couldn’t even if I didn’t care about #Covid. So many artists are just not what they were anymore, whether they admit the virus did that to them or not.
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@feisty_lemming The Eagles, 2019. Standing with the crowd trying to record every second of “Hotel California” in my memory. So glad I witnessed those old guys bringing their talents out for us. Two hours that will never happen again.
It couldn’t even if I didn’t care about #Covid. So many artists are just not what they were anymore, whether they admit the virus did that to them or not.
@edsuom That’s a great and bittersweet memory.
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