This has been an incredibly trying few months and continues to be emotionally challenging with no clear end in sight. When the quarantine first started, it was hard to imagine that it would continue for more than a few weeks, let alone for months. Now, about four months in, it is still not clear when school, work, sports, activities or socializing will return to ‘normal’. This sense of not knowing, having so many questions, and feeling a deep lack of clarity about the future is, for a great many people, starting to cause complex feelings. We are not at all accustomed to being forced to put our future in the hands of others (Governor, school administrators, doctors), and have no control over the outcome. It is incredibly difficult, and for so many of us, is causing feelings we have never had before and may not be able to identify. While some people understand how they are feeling, many others feel a vague sense of being uncomfortable, uneasy, bored or unmotivated. I’d like to clarify these feelings (even if we’re not fully in touch with them) because, right now, it might be helpful to feel some clarity — even if it is just about how we feel.
