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One Day, This Will All Be Over
It may seem scary, but this too shall pass
The world has become a strange place. The days come and go and we are greeted with more bad news and ominous reports.
Venturing out of the house for a brief walk, you are confronted by the realities of our time. Streets that were once full of people, empty and desolate.
Vast expanses of roads empty with no cars in sight. In a sign of these strange times, goats are taking over a small seaside town in Wales.
All the norms, everything that we have come to take for granted has been replaced in the blink of an eye. If you're prone to looking at the world in a negative light, it’s easy to look at things and wonder if they will ever get better. Will they ever return to some form of ‘normal’?
Well, the answer is simple. Yes, they will.
One day, in the near future, this will all be over. It may take a year, it may take two years, but things will go back to normal.
This may be new to us, but pandemics have happened before and they will happen again. It only feels disorientating and scary because we have never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes.
If you look through history, you see multiple episodes similar to the one we are experiencing. The…