This is my post for #memoirmonday #49 What Do You Miss About the Pre-Pandemic World? hosted by @ericvancewalton
My family was always getting together for special days like birthdays and holidays but our gatherings stopped with the pandemic. I miss our get-togethers, but we stopped them to protect Mom and we have never gone back to having them.
Mom was always the center of everything we did, even when she was tuckered out. I miss her the most, she had a stroke in 2020 and then got Covid in 2021, and she passed from it and dehydration.
I thought we were a close family, but the pandemic divided us, the ones who wore a mask and got the vaccine were laughed at by those who didn't. Even today, feelings are no longer as they once were.
Prices went up on everything, I miss the old prices. Also with the pandemic came a flood of people who moved from the big cities to my area, I miss the little town that we once were. The people moving here drove house prices beyond what a young family could afford.
We still had one fish house left on the river, I miss it but the pandemic did not have anything to do with it closing, it was just here before it happened.
One thing that I miss is people were not so mean to one another and there was not so much "tension" between political parties, it is like when the only contact they had with others was the internet, they became bold about their feelings on subjects that in person they would not have commented on those kinds of things. I would say, they became outspoken as long as they were behind a computer screen.
Even though they are nice to have I miss the times before we had computers.
photos are mine
