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Will The End of COVID-19 Start A New Chapter In Your Life?
New chapters can be energizing, or they can be a walk into the unknown.
I heard someone say the other day that COVID-19 was the beginning of a new chapter in her life. It made me reflect on all the new chapters that I’ve experienced in my 68 years.
It’s possible to have countless new chapters in your life. I’ve had many, among them: Surviving a disastrous too-young marriage; a second marriage and the birth of two children that forced me to grow up; the severe head injury suffered by my youngest son was emotionally devastating to my whole family. It included years of loving rehab … and financial ruin. And then there were major household moves across the country — each one a new adventure. Each one a new chapter in our lives.
But COVID-19 as a new chapter is much different.
I can see how this pandemic might give birth to a fresh start for the country, and if it does, what will this look like for us individually?
Economically, it’s going to be a hardship for many. That’s a given and something that I’m not going to comment on here, except to say that however the economy is broken, we will fix it.
More important to me is how this will change the lives of the people in the hardest-hit…
