Welcome to the new normal.
This is live footage of me entering the office.
This is footage of me sitting at my dining table.
This is live footage of me on a Zoom meeting with my video and mic turned off.
And this is me taking my scheduled half hour break to ponder the meaning of life.
So this year has been truly full of unprecedented times and it's
gotten to the point where it's actually funny.
Every time that we hear another crazy thing,
honestly none of us are shocked anymore. None of us could have even imagined all
the sh*t that went down this year if you told us in 2019 but like now we're honestly
so prepared for anything. This video isn't meant to undermine your situation if you
particularly had a really rough year. I get it. It was very hard, especially emotionally.
But I do hope that this video does inspire you to kind of look at how our
situation is now and from a better perspective and that maybe
you'll actually start to really enjoy your current lockdown quarantine situation.
Yeah take what you want from this video. Please don't get offended. So on that
note... If you're an introvert haven't you been living your best life right now?
It is literally encouraged by the government to not see people.
If somebody asks to hang out you can just be like, "Oh no, the President said that it's
not really a good idea." I am having so much fun being at home and I hope my
fellow introverts can relate to me on this but this is definitely why I really really don't
want life to return back to normal.
*crickets*
Hey guys, my name is Lydia. Welcome to deep chats in all black.
In today's episode I wanted to talk about why we shouldn't really want life to go
back to normal. The conversation has shifted. Before everyone was talking about
corona but since it's October 2020 and the year is almost over, we have
had around 7 to 8 months to become experts on the subject. So now that we're
all acclaimed PhD students on the topic of Covid-19 the conversation has shifted to
ok well when is life going to return back to normal? Everyone was making jokes this
year that, "Oh 2021is going to be our year," but we literally have less than three months
left in this year and that light that was supposed to be at the end of the tunnel it's
just it's not really there. There's not really any conversation of things reopening.
If anything there's kind of the second wave right now, at least where I am, and things
are getting shut down again. So what does that mean? Why are we saying that we
want life to go back to normal? What even is normal? Normal right now is wearing a
mask in public whereas before that wasn't normal. So our perception of everything
that we thought was normal has completely shifted. Welcome to my brain:
a series of never ending questions that are actually facts so I actually love talking to
myself all the time. I like to argue that we were all born to go through this period. If
you are watching this video you were born so that corona or 2020 could be a chapter
in your life. Just like people who were born during WWII, that was supposed to be a
chapter in their life. Yes, it's difficult. It's not ideal but going through hardships
really builds character and it's kind of sad but I feel like if you have it easy, you don't
really get the most out of life because you're not challenged in any way. And so
this year has been one of the craziest challenges I think a lot of us have
experienced, especially if you're in your 20s. But the good news is that since
we've hit rock- bottom, it's only up from here. I really don't want life to return back
to normal and I'm finding it kind of weird that when I tell this to people they're like
shocked. But I'm shocked that you're shocked.
You see now we understand how unhygienic and unsanitary all of our habits
were so if anything there's going to be less disease in the future because we are so
scared of disease and that is amazing. 2020 has also just made us completely
reset and I think that's what we needed and I keep saying this in every video but
people still don't get it. Why do we want to return back to normal when in our normal,
previous lives people were complaining that they didn't have enough time, that if
they had time they would pursue all these creative things. 2020 has literally handed
you time on a silver platter and what have you done with it? If only now you're
starting to realize wow you can actually do so much with your time, the good news is
that the situation probably won't change anytime soon and the likelihood that you're
going to be sitting at home for the next couple of months is very very high. So do
whatever you want. You're at home. There's no judgement. I know some people
are going to be like, "Well you have a really nice place to live in so of course you enjoy
being at home," but my argument is that if you're not enjoying your living situation
now you know that you have to confront that whether that's the place that you're in
(and maybe that you can't really deal with) but what if it's the people you're with?
Before I think a lot of people were running away to the office to sort of forget about
their problems at home but not that's not possible. The amount of mental hardships
and just the mental rollercoaster and emotional rollercoaster that has happened
this year I think has been really beneficial because you can learn so much about
yourself and you can really learn about the person you may be living with or seeing.
I'm actually shocked at how many relationships have started in quarantine
and how many relationships have ended...unfortunately.
But it has really shown people's true colors and if they're really compatible
because we are basically in a time of war so if you can go through this,
your relationship is going to be fine. But if you can't it's a sign that things need
to change and I'm very grateful that this year is showing this to people. And it's
ironic I'm saying this because I'm not even in a relationship. I just think that we're
really understanding the importance of work life balance. And the importance of
getting to spend time at home. Life isn't about working. And during quarantine I
have come to realize that we are literally born to make money but how is this
possible if humans have created money? I don't know why I thought this the other
weekend but me and my friend were discussing this and I was just shocked
that we finally realized this, that we're kind of playing ourselves with the system that
we've created. Life is not all about money and I really really am thankful that 2020
happened because we're finally realizing that there are so many more important
things. Life is short. You don't know when you're going to die, as corona has been
showing us. And we can be doing so much more and doing so many more valuable
things that don't require you to go to an office. So I'm very excited for what's going
to be the normal after this year and I really don't want it to just go back to normal
because there were a lot of issues back in 2019 that I think we're all just forgetting
because this year is just so so crazy. We need to stop glamorizing what was back
then and start glamorizing the idea of what's to come because so much has
changed and yes there were bad things but a lot of things are going to be so much
better. We have advanced so much in terms of technology this year. Just the
fact that all of these industries that didn't use technology now have to use
technology it's just crazy. And the industries that didn't survive covid well
they had an expiration date and they were meant to go out of business. After 2020
my prediction is that (I don't know when this is going to happen) but there are
going to be new jobs, new industries, and just we're going to be so resilient as
people because we'll be much more sanitary and we'll know how to deal with
mental health and dealing with our issues rather than looking to external sources of
fulfillment to make us feel better. So that being said, I really hope that you too can
really enjoy this time and look at it for all the positives and stop saying that you
want life to return back to normal because we don't even know what that is anymore.
And yeah this was just my little rant. I think it was because my mom is always saying,
"Don't you want life to return back to normal," and I'm like, "NO." So I was finally
inspired to make a video. But yeah, as always I'll see you in the next one.