Hikikomori

Over the last few weeks I have been working steadily. I have stopped worrying about outcome or income. Having a sense of discipline feels so good. I know that it is all about controlling some part of my life. Nine months on from the first knowledge of Covid-19, there is a constant push and pull of views about getting back to work and locking back down. Here at home, we now have the dreaded community spread, and no one is going back to school until 2021. The Pandemic has obviously changed every single thing we human beings do, thank and are. We talk about 'the new normal.' The new normal is everything but. We want to live, but we have a contagion. How do we live that way? To go out is to risk getting the disease, and the information we all have about contact tracing makes every movement a weighted, challenge on many fronts. The only thing to do is to live in a way that I actually read about three to four years ago and was so intruigued by that I discussed it many times with people. Now it seems that those Japanese people knew something. They are called Hikikomori. We are all now living such a life.