It was just a few months ago…
The world was put on a lockdown, an effort to
intentionally isolate the human race in order to curb the scourge that is the
coronavirus. Strangely though, it felt
as though the effort to isolate the human race actually raised inter-human
communications to a much higher level, thanks to technology.
How many times did you FaceTime your family?
How many times did you have social gathering held over
platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet-up or the likes?
I bet the level of activity in all your chatgroups
also went up a few notches, or maybe you even started having regular whatsapp
catch-ups with some friends whom you have not spoken to in ages. And… people who usually takes ages to reply a
single text… suddenly became rather prompt, did they?
Some claimed that the lockdown has given them a certain
degree of stress, and pushed them outside the comfort zone where they have to
do everything themselves. A friend of
mine was telling me his part time helper could not go to his place so he had to
do all housework himself.
Isn’t it an irony that people are being pushed outside
the comfort zone by being in their… “home”?
And of course, suddenly everyone is able to cook.
A wave of cuisine parade swept across social
media, where people proudly showed their ‘product’ from the only trip that they
can make during the lockdown… trip to the kitchen.That was just a few months ago…
The word that has reversed all of the above is called…
“normal”... while the term new-normal is floating
everywhere as the new way of life. However,
it cannot be denied that normalcy is slowly but surely returning, or more
specifically, the human race craves for normalcy to return.
Normalcy… lesser inter-human communications, no more
online social gatherings that did not translate into more physical gatherings, don’t
need to cook so much yourself, don’t need to do housework yourself, more time
wasted stuck in traffic jams… you know what I am getting at.
Normalcy returns, “I am busy” or “I have no time” is
back. Isolation has ended, and yet isolation has also… returned.