And Just Like That The Hectic Is Back.

Where has the collective patience gone?

It was too good to be true and really had to end sometime. As much as most were bemoaning the fact of enforced lock-down, it was a wonderful way to calm down, de-stress and step off the hamster wheel if only for a short time. Well, a trip to town cured me of my nirvana-ish thinking.

To top it off it rained like crazy today, so much so that the sides of the road resembled small streams, but still it shouldn't have caused people to be so frayed around the edges. Drivers were impatient, courtesies had subsided and ' me, myself and I ' had resurfaced. Hardly anyone gave an inch, be it in the queue to pay or in front of shelves. Sad, how quickly everyone seems to revert to normal.

The three months of rest didn't leave much of an imprint. Where have the smiles gone? Road rage has returned with a vengeance; even today when it was necessary to drive extra cautiously, people didn't. I saw a woman waiting to turn into a main road and because she had to wait for another car to turn in front of her first, she resorted to sign language and shouting. Let's just say that this type of behaviour doesn't sit well on middle aged women.

Part of the hectic can also be ascribed to a long weekend ahead, and a public holiday tomorrow. One would think that the lure of three days off would calm nerves but far from it. Well, I still somehow think and hope that some have taken to life lived in the lock-down calmness and incorporated some aspects of it into life after lock-down. Life, there for living...

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