I have been trying to figure out how to write this for a while now. I’m one of those people who looks at a date and her brain immediately categorizes if it was before or after any significant time period in my life. Such as, before I graduated high school, before I had my first child or before I married my husband.
Is this something others do or not? I have no clue. It does make for interesting conversations with family and friends though.
Why am I bringing this up? I’ve seen more reminders lately of before and after and they seem to center specifically around COVID. Which of course was due to the long periods for mask wearing (especially here in Oregon) and our kids were out of school so long and just how divided the medical community became because of a vaccine. Something so simple and easy and it not only divided our nation, it became a political weapon.
I would be shocked by the political scene except it’s really nothing new and come on do politicians really care what happens to us “little people?”
Anyway, tangent aside it’s just odd how memories can come and go in our minds. How a date or a movie can have you remembering a time before that was simple and easy. Before the world changed into the After we now live in.
Steeley Grace 