Having a bad evening

[StealthPolarBear]

I know I am very lucky. Lots have lost lives, jobs, loved ones
I've just realised our old lives aren't coming back as they were for a very long time if ever, are they?
Feelong a bit weepy. I'm fine but I liked my life.

How you feel is never stupid and never needs to be justified. I agree that the 'not knowing the length of sentence' is torture. With any date you can dig in and get used to it, but this is hard.

For me, I'm a bit of a recluse, I've had to deal with more people, not less during lockdown. I'm getting sick of seeing people!

We feel how we feel, I'm sorry that everyone young and old are suffering in all their own private ways, nobody needs to feel bad about it just because someone else has it worse.

You managed to breastfeed a kid longer than this lockdown,and survived a shark attack mid feed, (it's how I remember your name)

You can get through this too. Cry tonight, get some sleep, Tomorrow will be better.

I totally get what you are feeling. I feel so fed up of just not doing normal everyday little things. Everything takes longer to do when you step outside. For me I’ve lost count on the number of nights I’ve laid awake worrying about my family and friends, hoping they stay safe.

I just want it to go away and stay away for good.

How are you doing this morning?

Thank you all, I'm back to my usual glass half full self today :)

That's good to hear. I hoped that would be the case. I think we've all been there at some point.

@StealthPolarBear

I miss my colleagues. Which is crap when I am lucky to have a job. I miss travelling for work. I miss family days out. I miss restaurants. I miss smiling at strangers.

I miss all of these things too. I think they will come back, and quite soon. It just all seems so long and drawn out at the moment. Once things start to open up and we can meet with friends/family and get out and about it will start to feel a bit better.

Thank you all for indulging me. And Susan thanks for the reminder of my heroic infant feeding efforts while being chased by sharks. Anyone who wants to know more will have to wait for my autobiography, out in hardback late november, priced at only £19.99.

I think a year is realistic... most pandemics have 3 waves and last roughly 2 years

That's just about the dumbest thing I've read this week lol.

Covid is never going away. It's never going to be 'like flu'. The covid epidemic if you want to call it that will probably last 50 years globally.

But just like we did with Polio, we can push it largely out of western society if we try hard enough until most things return to normal.

But we cannot do that if we allow it to continue to circulate. It's not flu. We can't just live alongside it.