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Back to 'normal': Have you changed?

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  • #202
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,657 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    I have changed in that I would expect not to commute to work as often as I did in the past. In my industry once or twice a week in the office is enough.

    Other than that I deliberately refuse to change my outlook on life and what I expect from a return to normal (pre-2020). I can't wait to ditch the horrendous masks - I dont see any evidence they are helping anyway - and I will certainly go back to normal e.g. shaking hands and hugging and crowded pubs etc.

    The whole show was a massive overreaction in my opinion to begin with and I will resist any lingering 'measures' and I cant see myself ever changing in that outlook.


  • #203
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    really!

    not an irish story but.....

    https://twitter.com/nmannathukkaren/status/1380129214259720202

    I think if he could choose he'd definitely err on the side of caution and choose to go without the poor imitation of human contact over a potential scalding.


  • #204
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sam Hain wrote: »
    I think if he could choose he'd definitely err on the side of caution and choose to go without the poor imitation of human contact over a potential scalding.

    Aw, cmon...throw some king of bone here


  • #205
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,909 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Sam Hain wrote: »
    I think if he could choose he'd definitely err on the side of caution and choose to go without the poor imitation of human contact over a potential scalding.

    oh ffs! frontline staff are overwhelmed, they cannot fulfill all of their general duties, such as comforting the dying, hence.....


  • #206
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    I have had a very difficult year with work stress, the pandemic has both been a blessing and a curse in this respect. Working from home I haven't been constantly face to face with the people triggering the stress but also I have had very few distractions from work. I'd love to continue to work from home but don't think my work will allow it. Mentally the stress manifested in a physical sense and I've developed gastritis.

    I'm at a cross roads in my life where I am wondering if I should stay in the city where I am in this job and buy a flat. The job is fine but I dislike management and they did something that meant I had to take action against them, I was successful but it was a pyrrhic victory in a sense. I'd like to find a partner but I find it difficult to meet people here and it's the same people all the time. I want to go in a different direction but I'm afraid because I'm not in a profession that is in demand and allows people to move country also I was unemployed during the recession and I struggled for years to find proper work.

    My parents are getting older and I want to not be too far from them but I also would love to live abroad and test myself in a different culture, I'm too old for work abroad visas. A lot of these problems stem from a lack of confidence but I also don't want to take for granted what I've built for myself.

    I've started reading more philosophy, I've started doing more mindfulness activities, certain things have had their value heightened relationships etc.,

    You could say the pandemic has really tRIgGeRed me big time.


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