I wonder what the world will look like
by the end of this week?
Having lived through a week in which
the world was upended last week, I'm almost afraid to ask. If you
had told me last Monday that the country would literally be shut down
by Friday, I would've scoffed. I would've been wrong, but I would've
scoffed. The rapidity with which our world changed was breathtaking
and staggering, which makes me wonder--
Is there even anything left that can
change as much as things changed last week?
I'm almost loathe to ask that question;
after all, just look at what happened last week. Every time I think
things can't get any more bizarre they do. As I write this, we're
not under a stay-at-home or a total shutdown order. However, by the
time you read this—and it might be just 10 minutes after I post
this—we could be. That's the speed with which things move these
days.
And that's why I'm wondering what the
world—or at least our little part of the world—will look like by
Friday.
Who knows; maybe, by some miracle,
things won't be that different. Schools and restaurants may still be
closed, and toilet paper may be conspicuously absent from the stores,
but we'll still be able to get around. That could happen. But I
also wouldn't be surprised if we were told to stay home and not go to
work. If we were told we could only go to the stores on certain days
or certain times. And I wouldn't be surprised if things just keep
getting stranger in stranger.
Nothing would surprise me. Unless, of
course, toilet paper re-appeared in stores.
THAT would surprise the heck out of me.
8-)
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