Time travellers should prepare for tough sledding. If you went back to 1820 or even 1920, all the sudden changes would discombobulate you. And the same is true for someone who came forward to today.
We’ve got a
deep-seated desire for things to go back to normal, the way we were used to.
But this, this
moment of ours is now normal.
For now.
And then, there
will be another normal.
There is no “the new
normal”. Because that’s definitive.
There’s simply the
normal of now.
A new normal. This
too shall pass.
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
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| Perceived Infinity -Wyong, NSW, Australia 2015 |
9 comments:
Hello Peggy! We face a new normal for sure.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
Changes - as I'm sure you can recall, Bowie wrote: Time may change me
But I can't trace time.
Declaring this "new" normal reminds me of the late 90's when it was said that the stock market had changed into something new and different. Turned out it was just a bubble like many of other bubbles in the past. If human nature changes it does so very very slow.
Welcome back, Peggy - you've been away far too long, my friend!
Hello dear friends Christine, Debra, Bill and Mike.
I feel very blessed knowing you are always here supporting my blog no matter how long in between posts.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I just looked up where that expression came from:
"This phrase first appeared in English in the 1500s. However, the expression has been traced to Virgil's epic poem Aeneid, which was written between 29 and 19 BC. Virgil was a Roman poet who lived around 70 BC – 19 BC."
Cool eh!!
Bill you and I are often on the same page music wise - I was going to use "Changes" by David Bowie for this post but settled on "End of the Line"
You are certainly correct Bill in saying human nature changes very very slowly if at all, I wonder if this pandemic will change the way we treat each other.....I can live in hope!
Lots of love and big hugs
Peggy xxxx
Yes we definitely are in a new normal. I don't think covid will go away soon. We might get it under control with vaccines and other measures but things won't be as in the past. We are very blessed in NZ to have so much freedom. My family have a very different life with very strict rules e.g. they have to be inside at 9.00 pm, schools and shops are closed etc
Hope all is good with you my friend
Hey Marja
Like you in New Zealand we are very blessed in Australia too, compared to so many other countries in the world.
This pandemic has certainly forced a reckoning that so many of the things we counted on, from the utterly mundane to the profound, are simply not as true or sure as we always believed them to be.
We’re supposed to think big when the small things are dragging us down, and delight in the little things when the big stuff becomes too much, but the pandemic undermined and wiped out all of that in one go.
Losing a hobby or a familiar routine is enough to provoke grief, but probably nothing is as profound as the loss of connection with other people, of all the nuance and support of in-person interaction. Now, deciding whether to see a friend feels a lot like being forced to make a choice between your physical and mental health.
Big hugs my friend, it will be a day to rejoice when we can see each other in person again.
Peggy xxxx
I think this too. A new normal will be the reality for our children and grandchildren.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I will follow yours.
Hello Marie
Thanks for popping over and leaving a comment.
We cannot predict the future, whoever would have predicted a soul destroying pandemic in 2020.
Let's hope the new normal for our children and grandchildren is nothing like we are enduring in 2020/2021.
Looking forward to following your very interesting blog posts.
All the best
Peggy
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