What have you lost while staying inside?

[petra]

A commiseration post for today. Feel free to skip it if you're not in the mood for negativity.

Having to stay inside means we're all losing things we once had, or could have had. What have you lost to the forces that make you stay inside? How do you deal with the grief surrounding those losses?

Comments

[starshipfox]

The things I'm missing feel really unimportant, but it's still hard. I'd been saving up for, and looking forward to, a two-day trip to the spa for my birthday. I had a really emotional and difficult birthday last year due to some family issues, and I was really looking forward to the opportunity to go to a thermal spa and get a massage -- I have chronic pain and both of those things help SO MUCH. I feel disproportionately sad about missing out on that. Otherwise, it's mostly little things -- book club and going out for coffee and writing in the library -- stuff that gave life shape.

[petra]

I think we don't (didn't) put enough value on the little things that gave life shape until they were gone, so I don't think the things you're missing are unimportant. They're part of the fabric of everyday life that's been disrupted.