Before lockdown.
How many times have you heard it?
So many things were done,
Before lockdown.
Families went out together,
Before lock down.
People went on holiday,
Before lockdown.
We all hugged each other,
Before lockdown.
We shook each other’s hand,
Before lockdown.
But will our lives be the same
Before lockdown,
When we reach that time
After lockdown?
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Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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Good write Gold.
I feel we will reach it, but some of it is prolonged because of our own forgetfulness - and stupidity in some cases.
I forget social distancing at times, I admit. I think 'Oops, I'm too close to someone'. But some queue close together at times; walk wrong way down one-way streets; don't wear masks in shops.
Can't we all remember to do simple things?
Well, better than Belarus. 'Drink vodka to stave off crisis', the leaders said. Doh! I popped round with the water.
Reaching that normality of the passed seems to be a very long way off and the way things are going it is getting further and further away.
Andy
Something I keep asking myself - it seems to be a far off dream at the moment.
I do hope that dream will come true one day Michael, but as you say it seems a long way off and is getting further away each day.
Andy
GOOD MONTAG UNCLE ANDY - Thanks for Pachabel*s Canon & Stunnin Video we love it - AMEN. We consider LOCKDOWN has ha more efect on the Elderly & Infirmed because of lacke of Social Mobility etc. Now that Brian & I are both back in FT Work we are meeting People & Shopping & using Pub & Cafes etc etc. I dont think that for many LIFE (as we knew it) may not return their lifetime ? Angela & I hpe to have another 50 years and in 5 yeras time we will remember COVID 19 (with nostalgia) as we now remember *9 / 11* ( Brian was there) 19 years ago ! Meanwhie we have to KEEP SAFE and follow the Governments Rules etc.
Blessings & Peace to You & Yours
Love Angela & Brian & Smokey 💛💛💛
GOOD MONTAG UNCLE ANDY - Thanks for Pachabel*s Canon & Stunning Video we love it - AMEN. We consider LOCKDOWN has had more effect on the Elderly & Infirmed because of lack of Social Mobility etc. Now that Brian & I are both back in FT Work we are meeting People & Shopping & using Pub & Cafes etc etc. I dont think that for many LIFE (as we knew it) may not return their lifetime ? Angela & I hope to have another 50 years and in 5 yeras time we will remember COVID 19 (with nostalgia) as we now remember *9 / 11* ( Brian was there) 19 years ago ! Meanwhie we have to KEEP SAFE and follow the Governments Rules etc.
Blessings & Peace to You & Yours
Love Angela & Brian & Smokey 💛💛
Please check *MOUNTAINS* ~ Thanks A & B ! !
ha! I like the positivity in your certainty of a time to come: 'after lockdown'...
my cynicism lacks the fortitude to look beyond a simple hope for humanity's evergreen adaptability to create a framework of a stable(ish) society without devolving to all out anarchy, before we ever glimpse an end to this Plague of misery,
(tired of the false re-starts to normality!) either we agree to sacrifice lives for the survival of our economy or we ALL (not just some!) agree to lockdown until the virus is completely contained, we are losing a whole f'cking year with this endless dance of back-n-forth disjointedly shallow Government strategies!
I am sorry for sounding-off in your comments section,
but seriously its getting beyond my ability to fathom the levels of abundant ineptitude in those WE CHOOSE to govern us... at this rate we'll be better-of regressing to tyrannical leadership systems, at least we can trust in their sociopathic need for self-survival to get things done!
There is no need to apologise LB, I thoroughly agree with what you have said. The ineptitude of the government(s) is so vast, they are all looking to see what is in it for themselves and don't give a toss for those who elected them!
Andy
well written. Sadly I don't think things will ever be as they were before, but keep your head up. it will eventually get better!
You are right Melissa, things will not go back to as they were before, but life goes on and we must move forward in it.
Andy
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