"Seriously"....... What do you miss most..??????

Would like to drive to Cadiz and visit our place in Fuerteventura
not seen it for 12 months ☹️
No doubt the Bouganville has chosen to grow the opposite way to the arch we put in 🤔
 
Miss my RV , I do regret selling it but now I’m on a very limited budget probably would be able to afford to run it. Ah well I do dream of a lottery win.
 
I'm in a relatively unique position.
I lost everything I held dear a year or so before the virus. The first domino fell... and the whole collapsed like a building being demolished.
the virus struck just as I'd garnered the strength to rebuild. I'd already grieved. Mostly. Assimilated my isolation before the enforced isolation.
luckily my friends had rallied despite my choice to hide away. I'd literally started going out a bit two months before the virus struck. So distanced support wasn't new to us.
when the virus struck the tables turned and it was I who supported them. Suddenly, it seems, I was the strong one. Likewise financially. Suddenly the church mouse was the rich one, well used as she was by scraping by.... those new to reduced circumstances were able to benefit from the wisdoms of her experience.

What do I miss?
good question

I miss intimacy. I miss looking into smiles. I miss reading faces. I miss leisurely navigating supermarkets and not having to get done and get gone in the unpleasantness. I miss spontaneity. I miss finding I have an hour to myself and filling it with pleasantness of coffee with a friend or window shopping, driving off somewhere and finding somewhere beautiful to be.
But
Importantly
I miss things I'd never truly had. Or at least not had enough of. So, for me, the virus has levelled the playing field. I'd been without the things so many take for granted for so long... the virus barely impacted. The last straw was ages before type of thing?

I'm genuinely hopeful that more compassion, tolerance, understanding, self awareness, kindness, grace and loving acceptance are born as a result of this communal trauma. I'm hoping enforced solitude and restriction is acting like a sabbatical and giving individuals the opportunity to reflect and heal so that rather than staying in an egotistical, selfish world we emerge like butterflies, full of love for one another. Which I'm not saying didn't exist but I'm hoping this cascades upwards and outwards.
I'm hopeful that opportunities, previously held away from me (and others) will present.
But the truth is I've reconciled myself to what I have and if nothing changes will be far more content and peaceful than I ever was previously. And it's a seemingly sad but actually happy place to be.
 
Nothing. It had little impact on me personally thanks to a fantastic host.

The only thing that will change for me when it is all over is wearing a mask in shops will stop. Can't say it is something I am looking forward to as it isn't that much of a hassle.

It will be nice not to fear for elderly relatives and at risk friends.
 
Keep Right On said:
I'll NOT miss seeing pics of my 2 yr old grandson in his hospital bed in the cancer ward at Southampton. I do miss giving him and the 3 other grandchildren especially bigger hugs than ever before (been saving them up since March!)
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That made me cry. I can't imagine how you must feel... Hope the little one in hospial gets lots of happy moments from the nurses too. X

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children and grandchildren, some of whom I have not seen for a whole year, but I think mostly
the ability to “up and go” anywhere from ‘just shopping’ to an overnight/couple of nights /longer time away without wondering about proximity to others, tiers, etc. etc. Etc. I have a sneaky feeling that the mask thing will linger, but that’s not a problem.
 
Not sure how to put this among all your posts of not seeing your grandchildren, but I am lucky in that way as all mine live within a hundred yards of me, some in the same house, so about the only thing it's done for me is not going to France in the van, everything else is just normal for me, don't go in pubs, very rarely go shopping, don't do swimming pools or gyms, cinemas or anything else really,
Maybe you will say I am sad but it's pretty much normal for me. (y)
 
chaser said:
Not sure how to put this among all your posts of not seeing your grandchildren, but I am lucky in that way as all mine live within a hundred yards of me, some in the same house, so about the only thing it's done for me is not going to France in the van, everything else is just normal for me, don't go in pubs, very rarely go shopping, don't do swimming pools or gyms, cinemas or anything else really,
Maybe you will say I am sad but it's pretty much normal for me. (y)
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No chaser , it’s not sad! You are very lucky to be content with your lot! I think a lot of people are realising that it’s the small things that are important - family, friends & home. Being able to travel is a luxury, & I hope to get back to it soon, but it’s my family & friends that are most important to me!
 
chaser said:
Not sure how to put this among all your posts of not seeing your grandchildren, but I am lucky in that way as all mine live within a hundred yards of me, some in the same house, so about the only thing it's done for me is not going to France in the van, everything else is just normal for me, don't go in pubs, very rarely go shopping, don't do swimming pools or gyms, cinemas or anything else really,
Maybe you will say I am sad but it's pretty much normal for me. (y)
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Same here -been fed OK ,even having "take away "meal once a week from local pub .Simple life we"ve got "what you've never had "--Missed the freedom of going out where /when I want but been finding things to do at home /walks/garage etc. Luckier than a lot of folk though !

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Keep Right On said:
I'll NOT miss seeing pics of my 2 yr old grandson in his hospital bed in the cancer ward at Southampton. I do miss giving him and the 3 other grandchildren especially bigger hugs than ever before (been saving them up since March!)
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I feel so well hugged and blessed to know you all. Thanks
 
LesW said:
Seeing my family and motorhoming across Europe unhindered.
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will it be as easy now after Brexit ?

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EuroTrotters said:
Summer with our grandchildren. The first time in 12 years (our eldest grandchild was born then), that we have not taken them away.


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The look on his his face is beyond words. If you could can it and sell it it would be a priceless commodity.

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We live a simple life really - don't see the children and grandchildren that often anyway, so my list is:
Jumble Sales - I have a year's 'stuff' under the bed, ready to go
Charity Shop - same thing really, lots of scrap for the ragman as well as pre-loved treasures to donate
Quilting groups - will they ever get together again ?...... and I'm sure I've forgotten their names
and the freedom to book holidays without fretting.
Choosing my own shopping at the supermarket.
 
I miss normality at work ,when you work with the public head on all day every day trying to make them adhere to covid rules and restrictions is very stressfull and has created a very anxious and stressful envirnoment to work in .Most of the public dont like being told what to do :mad: we have to get pretty angry with some of them .But anyway hopefully the vaccine will be a game changer and we can get back to some sort of normality in the not to distant future.
Brian & Jo
 

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