I'm in college, and because of all of the immediate lockdowns and school closings, everything that brings me joy was shut down. I had so much planned for the spring semester (I'm in a lot of organizations) and was looking forwards to having a grad ceremony for cc. I am also involved in community organizations and everything planned for them was shut down. I spent two months rehearsing a play only for the show to be canceled completely the week before. My diploma was mailed to me. No plays. No ceremonies. All this work for nothing. No events I had planned. Projects down the drain.
The point I'm making with this powerleveling is that a lot of people didn't willingly give up what makes them happy; the happy things were made to shut down. I understand what you're saying 100%, but when your happy things don't exist anymore, there's nowhere to go out to because "out" is closed, what else is there to do but be at home?
I'm sorry to hear about all that. Thinking about all of the high school and college grads that got completely shafted in the spring is a real bummer.
I know you understand I'm not talking about situations like yours and basically everyone's, where your entire life was shut down completely beyond your control, and all you really want to do is get it back. No, the people I can't stand are the ones who put on such a performance about how they're being
so selfless by giving up their social lives, their hobbies, their get-togethers, their celebrations, their holidays, their vacations, and basically everything that gives life meaning, all because they think that by doing so, they're saving grandma. Oftentimes, it's not even their own grandma, they put on airs about how they're doing it for
your grandma. The people who go "well at least I know nobody has died because of what
I did," like we're supposed to thank them for being sanctimonious shut-ins.
There's always that undercurrent of "why isn't everyone else suffering like me?" to their pronouncements too, where they lash out at those that choose not to buy into the hype, who understand this isn't anywhere near as deadly or dangerous as it's being made out to be, and just want to get back to their normal lives. They're the ones who screech about how "it's people like you that ruined it for the rest of us!" with regards to the completely ineffective lockdowns, the ones who believe that the pain really will stop if we all just comply like good little sheep and let DUH SCIENCE tell us what to do. They're absolutely
livid that people aren't taking this sooper seriously, and they want to drag everyone else into the miserable hellhole they've made of their own lives so they don't have to suffer alone.
When this is all over (and by god it's going to end one way or another), there's gonna be a lot of people that will find that the friends they berated probably don't want to be around them anymore. If they thought they were lonely now, just wait until they never get invited to hang out again.
