Will We Social Distance Forever?

And why do you think that is?

You have to love yourself first before you can truly love anyone else. Otherwise, it’s just infatuation.

And true love is forgiveness. You don’t have to be with someone to love them and, sometimes, you need lots of distance and safety before you can love someone.

My dad is a horribly sexist/racist dude at times. I rarely saw him as a kid. He was on the road all the time, and then he cheated on my mom and left us all a week before Thanksgiving the year I turned 18. I have forgiven him for everything, and we’re closer now: That’s love.

I don't know that it is. I just always thought it was funny.

I do think that it's odd that we (as a society) idealise love and its effects, even to the point of encouraging young love and thinking it's cute when children have their first relationship, when we all know the heart-wrenching pain when that love leaves/dies. It's a drug, and like all drugs withdrawal is an absolute bitch which will kick you like you never knew anything could. Never smoke a joint though, cos you'll become addicted and never be the same again.

Odd message to tell ourselves.

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I don’t know a single country in the world in which domestic violence is absent. It’s not just Portugal. And it’s worse here right now since couples are self-isolated together.

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I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

I think we will always have the plexiglass screens that are in place now in so many stores, etc. At least until they fall apart; not sure if they’ll be replaced then.

The plexiglass screens just became a requirement at all stores (that are still open) here in NY, and they also just made face masks, (or face coverings like a bandana, etc.), a requirement to go into the stores too.

They also just announced that stores must limit the amount of customers in the store to 50% of their allowed capacity, and then customers must wait for someone to leave before the next person can enter the store.

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⬆️ CT hasn’t taken the step of mandatory face coverings yet, but no doubt it will.

Horrified (again) to visit Family Dollar where the cashiers have no masks or gloves. Just handling coins & bills alone could kill you.

I posted this elsewhere, and there were many replies like "I've been social distancing for YEARS"

I don't like strangers in my person space.

⬆️ I’ve always hated people who, for some unknown reason, stand very close to me.

We went to the supermarket to pick up some stuff for my in-laws, and there was a line to get in the store. When one guy walked right along the line to get to the back, he was only about a foot away from the people on the line. Most people just tried to lean away from the guy, but one customer in front of us on line yelled at him because he wasn't social distancing, and then called him an a-hole.

It wasn't very nice, but he wasn't wrong. Most of the other people on line praised the guy who yelled for speaking out about the idiot who wasn't social distancing.

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