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i i n n eeee d d a a HUG!
BY DAN SAYERS
SOCIAL DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER
Quarantine isn’t all bad. A life lived under house arrest can have unexpected benefits, including moments of absolute clarity. For people whose schedules are typically overloaded, a couple of weeks (months?) spent social distancing can actually help to redirect goals and reveal what’s really important in life.
I NEED A HUG!
A Zoom meeting is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, but it’s a poor substitute for a legitmate Meet and Greet. Social greetings that are dependant on social cues aren’t quite the same when they’re experienced on a screen where the participants resemble the celebrities from Hollywood Squares or the cast of The Brady Bunch. Though handshakes, hand-waving and hugs may be in short supply now, their reemergence in a post-pandemic world is all but assured.
SMELL THE ROSES/ROSÉ
Slowing down isn’t always easy to do, especially when the momentum of your life has had you functioning at breakneck speed for the last 20 years. However, with nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there, tasks that once seemed like chores can become reliable stress relievers; cleaning, making household repairs, and gardening can stave off those feelings of doom and gloom. (It really is a good idea to stop and smell the roses.) When all else fails, there’s always the transformative powers of aerobic exercise or opening a bottle of wine.
DRIVING IS NOT LIKE RIDING A BIKE
There are some skills in life that do, in fact, need to be relearned. Who knew that driv- ing would be one of them? With so many family cars and RVs sheltering in place, count- less drivers have very likely lost the ability to parallel park or back out of a driveway with confidence. Despite the millions of valid driver’s licenses issued, the return to the open road is going to require every motorist to proceed with extreme caution. (Or maybe it’s time to dust-off that old bicycle—again.)
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