Popping Bubbles
It is decreed. We’re allowed to hug again! At least a few people we know and love. I wrote in March about how big a challenge it would be for people like me to stop short of giving people we greet a quick squeeze. I vowed to hold back, and imagine a bubble around me.
Little did I know bubbles would become a thing!
Now I’m wondering what the future might hold, beyond a hesitant hugs and handshakes.
I’m still trying to catch up with everything we’ve been experiencing in the past few weeks:
Slow Start: our brains have struggled since the start to keep up with reality. We heard the news out of China, and watched it as if it were a movie. We still travelled, attended conferences, hung out in crowds. Then it finally started to sink in. A little late, but we got it just as it became clear that COVID19 was here.
Pandemic Perfectionism: not long after we started to wrap our brains around what being in a bubble would look and feel like, we were...