Is it pointless to have hopes and dreams now? Has this virus changed how life will be forever?

[loveisbeautiful]

There's so many people who say this virus will never end and every fall we'll just do this again and again. If you add that to all the rules of going out and having to where a mask and people taking your temperature, plus people looking at each other like they all have the plague. With all of that, is there any reason to have hopes, dreams or goals anymore? If this is our new normal for the rest of our lives, isn't any dream or goal just pointless? Kind of seems that way to me. How can you date, if you have to stand six feet apart? How can get married, if you can't have guests and you have to stand six feet apart? Why have kids, if they won't be able to go to school or just be kids and have fun? Why go to college, if no one can work anyway? Really, what's the point of anything if this is now forever our lives?

I'm just curious.

[Maraneva]

Erm... Lemme be living proof that it hasn't even made a dent in daily life. I'm working 14 hour shifts everyday with a group of girls and boys at the factory. We do have masks but it's just way too uncomfortable so we don't wear them unless we travel out. While working, forget social distance. There's no distance whatsoever. We work together, have breaks together etc. We guys have tea standing in groups with hands on shoulders. Quite honestly, except certain places, everything has gone back to normal already and those exceptions will fade in a couple of months at best🤷

[loveisbeautiful]

Maybe I should move to India lol. It's nice that certain places are going back to normal.

[Maraneva]

😂😂 You're most welcome here, buddy!
Thing is, the number of cases here is through the roof but majority of the tested people showed NO symptoms! Many of us got random bouts of cough and cold last month and it might very well have been the virus but it came and went on its own so people don't take it extra seriously here. The importance is pretty much the same as that for other diseases. Nothing more.

[loveisbeautiful]

Well, India is fairly warm climate, yes? If so, I read the virus doesn't do well in heat and humidity, it can't survive in that. So, maybe that's why it affects people different there.

[Maraneva]

It is plenty warm in most places here but actually that heat and humidity doesn't work well on the virus. It seems resilient to all of those things but if you have proper immunity, the virus will have a hard time hurting you.

[tartaarsaus]

Pandemics typically don’t last 60-70 years, especially with modern medicine. It’s very likely that it will at most last 1-2 years. Unless your dreams and main goals have zero impact on you beyond 2 years from now, yes goals and dreams are pointless. If they do have some affect beyond 2 years from now, it’s not pointless at all.

[tartaarsaus]

Some mathematical models by some researchers at Harvard say in a natural way we may have waves until 2024-2025 without any exogenous improvements, such as medicine, quick tests for the virus or a vaccine. Given that any of those would already massively improve the situation and allow for far more freedom to do whatever you want, it’s probably likely that it is 1-2 years

[Felicityoyo]

This won't go on forever. Pandemics have happened in the past and viruses dont go away. We just learn to live with them. Social media has just inflamed it ten times over making it seem like a bigger deal than it is

[wingattebaby16]

i think this is just a Pause in Life... dont ever give up

[Jjpayne]

Vaccine is the plug. Once we are there, then we are golden. I'd say, just enjoy safely the social allowance we currently have for the time being and never give up on hopes and dreams :)

[GreenGold1992]

The virus will end before you know it, don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

Without any hopes or dreams, we'd have nothing, not even a life worth living.

[Historylover18]

No. The point of ambition is to strive for it through every road block. What they mean is that the virus itself will never end, whereas the quarantine will end.

[douride2]

Here is hoping life gets back to normal or as normal as we can make it soon. Very soon.

[0oGreyo0]

Don't worries everybody gonna risk their lives July 10th

[monkeynutts]

Nope. Shit just gets tough sometimes. Get on with what you got to do.

[OddBeMe]

there will always be crises. You have to learn to adapt.

[888theGreat]

No, but it will 25 years before we see anything close to normal and it all might be over by then.

[MannMitAntworten]

Don’t abide by the request. Be free...

[In_Trance]

Perfectly ok to have hopes and dreams

[Numbnuts89]

life will continue, but, things need to change

[eagle1951]

only if you let it.