What Won’t You Take For Granted Ever Again After This?

amother

Crimson

Mon, May 25 2020, 10:27 am

Elfrida wrote:

Humanity is very adaptable. In a few years time this while period will be a distant memory and well be back to life as normal. Even if there is a lasting 'new normal' we will just become used to it and take it for granted.

We'll think back to this period and wonder how we coped, and when we remember it we will be thankful, but I think we will slip back into taking normal lifestyles for granted fairly quickly.

Next Pesach we'll look back at Pesach under lockdown, and realize that Pesach with our family isn't something we can take for granted - but in five or ten years, we'll barely think of it.

SD will be another year. Peasach 2021 will be like 2020.

4g01o

Mon, May 25 2020, 10:33 am

amother [ Crimson ] wrote:

SD will be another year. Peasach 2021 will be like 2020.

I hope not!! People were dropping like flies before pesach, and we had to make yt with all our kids home and being ill! No thanks. Pesach will iyH be 'normal' in 2021! I want to go to my fathers seder again before it's too late c.v

amother

Teal

Mon, May 25 2020, 10:39 am

Going shopping without worry and no mask
Eating out
Getting my gray roots died in a salon
My father who died

essie14

Mon, May 25 2020, 10:44 am

amother [ Periwinkle ] wrote:

Funny. I've come to realize that all my distant acquaintances can make simchos without me and my life is much more peaceful without running out to mazel tov simchos every night.

I hope people keep simchos small in the future. And even if they dont... count me out.

I agree completely.

amother

Crimson

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:10 am

Fab4 wrote:

Don't shoot the messenger.
There will likely be a 2nd wave Oct- may.
I don't want it either, but get used to,it. No school, all yuntif (including succos and pesach) on your own.... I'm not happy either.

ExtraCredit

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:26 am

מנע מגפה מנחלתך
Will have so much more meaning this rosh hashana. Took it for granted till now that this doesn’t “apply” in our days...

BH Yom Yom

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:27 am

Surplus wrote:

מנע מגפה מנחלתך
Will have so much more meaning this rosh hashana. Took it for granted till now that this doesn’t “apply” in our days...

This. Especially by ונתנה תוקף.

mom4eva

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:34 am

amother [ Tangerine ] wrote:

Everything.

Every. Little. Thing.

So true.
From Amazon shopping to to meeting friends. Enjoy it while you got it.

Chayalle

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:45 am

My sense of smell. Even though it's back B"H, I feel it's not what it was, not fully. And I never realized before how beautiful it is.

And fully stocked supermarkets. Including the cleaning products, the tissues, the water bottles....all at normal or even sale prices.

And going to shul....

BH Yom Yom

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:47 am

Chayalle wrote:

Chayalle, I'm glad your sense of smell is back - thank you for motivating me to be grateful that I have my sense of smell b"H! It's scary how corona can affect the nervous system.

And definitely agree with fully stocked stores. IY"H by all of us ASAP!

amother

Brown

Mon, May 25 2020, 11:57 am

Surplus wrote:

מנע מגפה מנחלתך
Will have so much more meaning this rosh hashana. Took it for granted till now that this doesn’t “apply” in our days...

We naive women used to think it implies the big C....oh yeah. Now we know, as scary as yenneh machla is, it's not even a megeife...

ExtraCredit

Mon, May 25 2020, 12:18 pm

amother [ Brown ] wrote:

We naive women used to think it implies the big C....oh yeah. Now we know, as scary as yenneh machla is, it's not even a megeife...

I never considered that a megeifa. Just a very sad illness among many others.

4g01o

Mon, May 25 2020, 1:13 pm

amother [ Crimson ] wrote:

Let's take it day by day as non of us know what will happen in the future so no use speculating. I like looking at the positives and iyH we will be back having guests again etc. It's my oldest son's Bar Mitzvah after sukkos. Who knows what will be!

amother

Crimson

Mon, May 25 2020, 1:23 pm

Fab4 wrote:

That's fine with me.

But it is also naive to say that next year we will look back.

amother

Tangerine

Mon, May 25 2020, 1:32 pm

Tracht gut vet zein gut

appreciate every single thing we have and can enjoy now -- right now

if anything we have opened our eyes to losing our illusion that we can know what will be

visualize the positive

there is no going back only forward into an even better tomorrow IY"H