I miss:
Date nights
Going to the movies
Concerts
Aggressive Hugging
Seeing big smiles and not being able to help smiling in return
Shaking hands
Talking to strangers in lines and elevators and on airplanes. Connections in random moments.
Holding babies at the register to help the mom that can’t quite get to her wallet, meanwhile baby is melting down and she’s panicked.
A house full of boisterous military kids. In and out and I’m and out. Giggling teens and rambunctious preschoolers.
I miss :
Vacations
Visiting nursing homes
Church
Volunteering in my girls’ schools
Watching kids sports
Fairs and festivals
Libraries
Browsing at shops
Frivolous things like haircuts and manicures and massages.
Parties
Play dates
Retreats and conventions.
But most of all I miss the time of innocence before all of this.
Before I realized how selfish some people could be and before I knew anything about Q a n o n – before I know how truly angry and entitled people could be.
Back when I honestly didn’t know that anything, even a disease, could be divisive and politicized.
I had NO idea.
It’s like a slithering , seedy, dark underbelly that has been revealed. I feel like I’ve been turned upside down, shaken, jarred. I feel like a slightly off center version of myself.
Now I see it EVERYWHERE.
And as a fixer, a people person, a lover of everyone, a tenderhearted human, I want to fix it all. I want to make it all better. And I can’t.
It’s like trying to move a mountain with a freaking spoon.
Before…seems like a lifetime ago. I miss that but I don’t mourn it. It’s been a necessary awakening for me. I needed to be shaken. But man.
I miss it.
Yes, yes, yes!
Everything. And knowing full week you have lost followers (who cares?) in my heart I know you have had to be educating your peeps too There are a whole lot of people that ignore current and historical events—although heaven only knows how in the year we just went through. I thank you for all you do.while still managing to be a positive person. I started following you in Georgia and I’m pretty sure I’m not following you for the scrapbooking these days so you must be doing something right❤️❤️❤️
Yes. I miss hugging people at church during the passing of the peace. Our sweet pastor tried to rein us in and tell us we could catch up after the service, but we didn’t listen well. I still plan to scrapbook 2020 — even bought some paper and stickers to tell a few big stories, plus a Happy Planner for the day-to-day & many, many memes — but it’s so hard to remember how blissfully “ignorant” I was before this began to impact our corner of the world. I never imagined something that would touch every single aspect of our lives this way.
Yes, I agree with everything you said. Completely. I feel gutted. But, you are a wonderful and bright light.
Beautifully stated!