Will.NFFC
Vital Football Hero
Hello Will, I come in peace, not looking for a fight just presenting a point of view. As a senior citizen I tend to see things in a different way to a lot of you. For instance at 19 years old I spent the year in North Africa and Egypt in the British Army, my choice, didn't drink or smoke, that was the only way I could see the world and by and large I enjoyed it. It certainly broadened my view. Since then I've learned to drink and smoke.
I didn't realize it at the time but I'm definitely an optimist and have realized that this has always coloured my thinking, perhaps explaining how we ended up in Oz. Perhaps paz is tarred with the same brush , I don't know.
And lastly I've got 9 adult grandchildren and I've always seen quite a lot of them, they seem to be able to make the best out of a situation.
Probably things are different over here, might be easier in some respects, again I don't know. (Except I do know about the weather )
Naturally I hope things work out for you lot but have serious doubts as Covid may spring more tricks yet.
Everyone’s different aren’t they and it sounds like given your teenage/early /20’s year, you had a vastly different experience so I can understand how and why you’re able to cope and perhaps even enjoy it. It’s good that you do! I wish I wasn’t as bothered by it ORF.
Problem is I work in quite a young, vibrant office with a lot of young professions and we’re all quite close and enjoy going out in what’s a tough demanding sector. Up until these restrictions were lifted it really was all work, no play. My work hours became longer and there was no respite and I know many of us felt the same.
Even when pubs opened, it wasn’t sociable. You pick your immediate friends to have a drink with on your own table with no socialising with anybody else and then you go home. For 18/19 year olds in the UK, they go to uni to socialse and meet new people. They can’t be expected to put all the time and effort into learning and ‘being the bright future’ when they’re then conditioned not to socialize with people. It’s not fair - I’m sure we’ve all got friends for life that we met through mixing when we were younger.
For women in their mid to late 20’s who’re single and want to meet someone and start a family given there’s a clock, there was next to no opportunity.
Regardless of pubs being open, having social distancing rules in place made life for me totally mundane and unnatural. I frankly hated it. Mentally it felt like having long Covid.
I get the virus is serious, I understand that it’s not gone away…. But it probably never will go away and I think what’s lacked throughout this pandemic has been a balance. The issues I’ve mentioned above I’ve never heard once from anybody in government. The reality is that we have a vaccine that’s probably done all we can do to control this virus. If after that there remains some deaths… then sadly that’s part of life. And I know, “easy for you to say - what about their families?”… but then what’s the answer? Life has to be worth living and Living in a masked socially distanced world forever isn’t living at all.
I hope it improves but I think we are where we are and if we can’t unlock and enjoy things 16 months later!!… then we simply never will.