It takes 21 days to break/form a habit or addiction

[Dryadia]

Can't believe the current situation has lead me to actual do my first post, but being stuck at home with worrying symptoms and health conditions for the last 2 1/2 weeks gives you plenty of time to mull things over and over in your head.

As per title, given what we are all about to experience, could we actually see a worldwide detox from capitalism/materialism? I imagine most of us are going to be prioritising essential spending for at least the next 5-6 months, alongside with a possible shift to wanting to keep friends & family close ( in spirit, even if we can't in person).

I think this could actual change the world in ways we could not even have imagined a few months ago.

Sorry for the long first post, keeping the mind from adult kids currently living in countries on the other side of the world, both DH & I having health issues (listed over and over in Gov warnings) and elderly parents hours away.

I am actually now hanging on to this idea as a tiny glimmer of hope for the future.

Hi Dryadia,

How wonderful to hear a positive slant at this tough time!
We like your thinking and agree perhaps it may make many of us reassess how we live.

We wanted to say hi and thanks for posting; hopefully we've given this a bump for you now so some of our users should be along shortly to chat this over with you.

What a lovely positive post. We've started facetiming relatives each evening to say good night, which has been nice, and being forced to homeschool has opened my eyes to how many lovely educational resources there are that I can get involved in with my son.

Defiantly. I will not be spending anything I don't absolutely have to whilst things are so uncertain.

I know a lot of parents that are really going to struggle with not having grandparent help, myself included.

Some of them I will watch with interest as they are quite demanding and very unappreciative about the vast amount their parents do for them and save them. Heard of some making their parents rules about how to look after the kids etc.

I really hope this makes them realise how much they would struggle without having parents they can just assume will have them on demand.

Dryadia great post and something I have have also spent a lot of time thinking about recently. This is a game changer for the whole world. Good things can come from a truly awful situation and I'm hanging on to that too

My parents live abroad, in a country currently on lockdown. We used to phone about once a week, sometimes once a fortnight. We've now been phoning/skyping every day, with DC getting involved several times too. I hope we keep this up after the pandemic.

DH has never been as close to his parents, but we're speaking to them a lot more too. We're very worried about them as they're elderly and live in a country with more limited medical care, but again, it's really nice to speak to them more.

I can also see positives coming out of this of people stay united. And we will certainly learn to appreciate the little things a lot more. I miss my friends and my family. I can’t wait to be hugging them again