I’d covid hadn’t happened…

[Mancity126]

Personally and for the world life would be so different I genuinely can’t comprehend. For me personally, I would still be in my old job, still have certain friends, my kids MH (and mine for that matter would be a lot better. That being said it’s certainly also had some positive impacts on my life, for example I started a side business which I absolutely love and it’s enabled me to get a much better work life balance. On a global level trump would likely still be president and Boris Johnson still our PM. The most stark impact is definitely on my kids but all areas of life have been so impacted and it feels like the world has been fundamentally been changed. What ways would your life be different if covid hadn’t happened?

In some ways I feel like covid is something that happened to other people. We had jobs that had to carry on throughout. I've never let go of the resentment that I was working to pay for other people to have months of paid holiday. So I feel more distant from basically everyone now.

Life has changed massively but alongside covid not because of it.

I'd have gone to my parents' and my aunt and uncles funerals.

My mum wouldn’t have died and then my dad wouldn’t have died of a broken heart 4 months later. So that.

I wouldn't have missed it on the last two healthy years of life my dad had. By the time lockdowns were done he was diagnosed with MND.

Likewise for my sister.

Not only was I robbed of that time with them, but the last 18 months of their lives were spent being terrified we were going accelerate losing them because of possible covid transmission.

Both passed away this year. Not a single positive for me.

I’m so sorry. This is heartbreaking. I know too many stories of huge life changing losses from
covid, whether directly or indirectly

It’s shit and unfair and I’m so sorry you experienced this. I also missed out on the last 2 years of mum’s life, and i’ll never get over it.

I'd have gone to visit my ex when he asked me to. We'd have talked through the last 20 years, maybe worked it all out. Maybe not. But I'd have told him exactly how I felt about him.

Instead, my mental health took a dive and I pushed him away.

He took his own life this year and I will forever regret not having made that visit, whatever the outcome would have been.

I started a thread last month about this, I feel guilty for everyone that lost loved ones. Being selfish and in a way my post was, I lost my home, our business, my business and now our equity is going on rent etc. Very bitter but realise I was so lucky

These posts break my heart. I'm so angry about these effects from the pandemic.

My life wouldn’t be that different but, even though my husband would still have died (not Covid ) I would have been able to see him for the 7 months he was in lock down in his long term care home.

Nothing much changed really for us.

Both still had to go to work every day, so life was pretty much the same.

I'm so sorry you've been through similar 💐

It's unrelentlessly shit, especially as those who commanded us to stay away from loved ones did whatever they wanted.

I'm still raging about it all. Our obedience made us lose something we'll ever get back 💔

I'm so sorry to all those who have been really badly affected by covid.

For us personally, covid gave us the push to make a big move. My dh was made redundant (worked overseas a lot) due to covid. We decided to sell up and move to my home country. Covid changed the way my job could be done so I've been able to work remotely through my business earning a very good salary for the country I'm in. Dh got a new job easily. We're overall 100% happier.