What Will The Future Bring?

 Forming new habits.

It has been said that after 21 days of doing things differently to how they are always done, it becomes a habit. Be it changing one's diet, not eating chocolate after supper or staying indoors.

Staying indoors, that is our new way of life, isn't it?  For the last  ten months we have all more or less isolated indoors, in our own homes ( happily so ) and thus formed new habits. Take today for example; it is a miserable day with continuous drizzle, grey sky and cold temperatures. A perfect Saturday to stay home, with not a thought given to shopping centers and the like.

Shopping hasn't ceased, only changed in format. Amazon is laughing all the way to the bank and sneakily they have now upped the anti here in Austria. One can shop at Amazon on account and only pay the bill two weeks later. Well, how many folks are going to fall for that one and go crazy over Christmas only to be caught out with a huge bill later?

The vaccines are being rolled out and perhaps by May life can resume in its old style but the question is, will we want to have some aspects of it back? Yes of course, the first few weeks most of us will go mad gorging ourselves on restaurant fare, tread the planks of shopping malls and rush to get a slice of cheap holiday packages all while wearing proper make-up. By the by, are people still whitening their teeth while they are hidden behind masks?

A couple of days into resuming our old way of life, many will realize just how fabulous our current lockdown schedule actually is. All the noise of life is just that...an irritation that we have had a chance to leave behind while we formed this new habit of being happy at home, happy with our family and happy with what we have in life...

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