Great Awakening

Lately, all I can think about is how crazy people are going to go once things go back to how we were so used to. Hopefully soon, we can go back to sitting inside restaurants and surrounding ourself with as many people as we want.

But once things can go back to “normal”, will there be days immediately following that are noticeably crazy? I expect people to respond by going out and spending some money but I also expect it won’t take too long until we’re back to our normal routines that we had in the beginning of the year.

So what will people learn from this pandemic that caught them so off guard and forced the whole world to take notice? I follow plenty of people on social media sites that like to describe this time in our society as a “great awakening”. I never looked at it that way until then. A great awakening for or from what exactly though?

I find this idea of a great awakening interesting because how often does something like this happen in a lifetime, a pandemic that affects not just you and your country, but the whole world, and does it put on the minds and hearts of everyone that it affects? Surely everyone realizes just how quickly things can change and manipulate your everyday life. There will always be death, disaster and destruction to put things in perspective, and if those things weren’t enough, now we have a global pandemic, something I only read about and never expected to actually happen again and affect me.

This pandemic has been another reason for me to not take things for granted. Now I really know what boredom is, but then again, I have time to spend doing things I’ve always wanted to do or things I know I should learn for future reference. For example, I’ve watched my parents cook different meals and I’ve helped my dad lay down new flooring in our house. I’ve also rearranged my room and created a spending guide for this upcoming summer, a time where I will work full-time.

It’s easy to express anger and frustration with this temporary norm that we have had to adapt to, but it’s also a reason to finally get something done that you’ve put off for a while or learn a new, important trait that’s beneficial. I can’t wait until this virus is a thing of the past but it’s also given us reason to get things done and appreciate what we have and are able to do regularly.