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The world is changing
Mar. 30th, 2020 11:30 pmFor weeks, I have done teleworking and had generally peaceful, not much inconvenient life but at the same time, all the while, I have been feeling like “I can not believe this is real”. Though bit by bit, I have been accepting the truth that the world is changing now and the happy time when we can visit anywhere in the world if we have some money and courage might be ending. Not just a recession but also an unfamiliar, maybe more uncomfortable time would come when we’d survive this pandemic.
During the disaster maybe we tend to feel like this. I remember I have felt similarly in 2011, during and after the great Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuke crisis. But this time, though the life of most of us is not damaged badly, the whole world is suffering and fighting against the same enemy, no place to run into.
Today, a very popular Japanese comedian died of coronavirus, the first famous deceased in Japan. So people were shocked and the newspapers and internet are full of the words of mourning. Yes it was sad, a tragedy. Still, to me, it seems that there are far more grief than the essential awareness of that how danger our current situation is. I hope his death would awake the cautiousness in many “optimistic” Japanese but it might be too late. We might be following the same path where Italy and Spain have walked on 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Even so, yes most of us would eventually survive and the “normal” life would be back someday, but I’m afraid some things will change forever and never come back.
Yes this is really a war, and with tens of thousands of dead, who can be the same as before?
Coincidentally my best friend who has lived in Yokohama for about 15 years will move to a very far city within a few months for her husband’s job, I’ll lose the best companion for going out and talking and thinking together. I’m not sure if she would come back, and even if she will, then I’d become far older and... things can never be the same. So I have to change my life somehow.
At the moment I have no idea how bad this infection would be here in near future, thus cannot imagine well about my job and life in very near future. I really hope the ”optimistic” ones would be right and the situation would not become as worse as in Europe, but not sure.not sure at all. I just know our society, and my own life must change. And still cannot prepare for it enough.
During the disaster maybe we tend to feel like this. I remember I have felt similarly in 2011, during and after the great Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuke crisis. But this time, though the life of most of us is not damaged badly, the whole world is suffering and fighting against the same enemy, no place to run into.
Today, a very popular Japanese comedian died of coronavirus, the first famous deceased in Japan. So people were shocked and the newspapers and internet are full of the words of mourning. Yes it was sad, a tragedy. Still, to me, it seems that there are far more grief than the essential awareness of that how danger our current situation is. I hope his death would awake the cautiousness in many “optimistic” Japanese but it might be too late. We might be following the same path where Italy and Spain have walked on 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Even so, yes most of us would eventually survive and the “normal” life would be back someday, but I’m afraid some things will change forever and never come back.
Yes this is really a war, and with tens of thousands of dead, who can be the same as before?
Coincidentally my best friend who has lived in Yokohama for about 15 years will move to a very far city within a few months for her husband’s job, I’ll lose the best companion for going out and talking and thinking together. I’m not sure if she would come back, and even if she will, then I’d become far older and... things can never be the same. So I have to change my life somehow.
At the moment I have no idea how bad this infection would be here in near future, thus cannot imagine well about my job and life in very near future. I really hope the ”optimistic” ones would be right and the situation would not become as worse as in Europe, but not sure.not sure at all. I just know our society, and my own life must change. And still cannot prepare for it enough.