It's understandable that people are nostalgic for the beginning of the pandemic, when we were mostly worried about our sourdough starters.
that this hasn’t been the first, and it certainly won’t be the last time a pandemic of this nature occurs. So what exactly are we nostalgic about?a psychology professor who studies nostalgia and memory formation, “Reminiscing about things that came out of the pandemic is people’s way of making sense of, and growing from the experience.” Hmm. When you put it like that, I suppose it makes sense. In the beginning, the phrase “Wgraced every TV commercial, every email, and every podcast episode.
It’s understandable that people are nostalgic for the beginning. When we were into baking bread and cheering hospital staff instead of threatening their lives. Where we made paper hearts to put in our windows to remind our children that as hard as it can be, humanity always wins. Because when you realize that a helluva lot of the people you thought you knew were the complete opposite of who you believed them to be, it’s a hard truth to accept.