Grieving during a Global Pandemic II: One Year Later
Lockdown restrictions have started to ease over the past week or so, and I've had a lot of weird feelings about it. Mostly because it's been so long since I've experienced the 'old' normal things like going out shopping or for a meal in a restaurant or drinks at the pub with my friends. When the pandemic first happened, and the first lockdown was announced last March, I spent weeks mourning the 'old normal' whilst struggling to adjust to this new way of life that we were suddenly thrust into. It's weird now to think that something I've mourned will come back. But mostly, this week I've struggled because whilst going out again is allowed and shopping and trips to the pub are coming back, some things in my life aren't. Because whilst the world tentatively starts to step towards how life used to be before the covid pandemic (though it looks very different naturally), that doesn't change the fact my grandma is gone. Everything I mourned in th...