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Being Thrown Upon Yourself

“It’s making people sit with themselves and all of their uncomfortable feelings.” my friend Crystal told me via text message.

Crystal’s text sat with my thoughts, lingering like uncomfortable feelings. I wasn’t sure how to take this.

Her text was part of a conjecture that society was going to change due to the pandemic induced solitude cast upon so many of us.

Our conversation was prompted by a survey I created as a basis for an informational resource packet.

Ideally, it would provide some solutions to the pandemic related problems people disclosed.

Going through the survey responses days later, at least half of Crystal’s conjecture was proven true.

People were struggling with the enforced solitude because they didn’t know what to do with themselves. Would society change though?

I figured I could at least address the initial part of her conjecture. Extensive musing followed. I needed to offer guidance that would be best for the most amount of people…

…Aha!