June has been a month for thinking about the suddenness of living this life – how the best-laid plans can go off track in an instant. Between sudden health issues in my household, and a sudden death in my family circle, it’s been a bit of a reminder than things can go wrong very suddenly indeed.
And really, there’s just been a lot. It’s great that those of us who are vaccinated are beginning to come out from under the pandemic cloud – but it’s also weird.
It feels weird to gather without masks. It feels great to see friends and family one hasn’t seen in a long time.
It feels weird to be in stores – and a remembrance that stores don’t always have what you’re looking for, and even at this point there are still “supply-chain” issues. The right things are still hard to get.
It feels weird to be talking about going back to work in person – and to be moving from “well, we’ll have some flexibility” to “well, we think everyone should come in all the time!”
Then you read about the variants and wonder: is it all a dream? Are we all going to go back into “quarantine” because we can’t get enough people vaccinated to keep all the variants under control and one of them is going to have a break-through and start killing people in large numbers, including those who were vaccinated?
Maybe we are in the pause before the storm hits again.
Or maybe it’s all but over.
It’s hard to tell.
Competitive Malaise 