Thought question

[drwex]

I have a lot of them and might post more. Here's one for today:

What are you hoping not to take for granted ever again?

For me it's the pleasure of seeing other people. I am, as the icon indicates, a troll by nature. Introverted. I recharge via downtime. My tolerance for random social interactions is about 90 minutes, usually.

But I've been enjoying my couple of online groups - one is an old geeks club and one is my D&D group - way more than I expected. I love my teas with friends (you are still invited, by the way).

Being part of a larger group (I do professional groups and town halls and discussions and such) isn't doing it for me, even when I can see other people. The familiar nature of the faces? The potential for personal interaction? I dunno. It's something-something and I can't put a finger on it but I can feel it.

What do you think? What's on your list?

Comments

[donnad]

I think for me it's the ability to just run out to the store when I need something. Something for dinner, or a craft item, I can't just go get it without seriously thinking about it and usually deciding on something different so I limit my time out to once a week. So I am thinking harder about what to cook for dinner and what projects to work on.
It's even more difficult fpr me right now since I am only 3 months into a gluten free lifestyle, and still learning to cook GF and don't always have the ingredients I need. I am also having a hard time finding the GF products in the stores, because people unable to get regular are buying the GF products. I think I took for granted that I would be able to find everything I need on the grocery store shelves. My local grocery store still have huge empty gaps on their shelves.

[dianec42]

Oh gosh yes, shopping in general. I did a big run in February??? (I think?) and I swear I hit about 8 stores and had to wander and browse to find all the things I needed. I can't even imagine doing that now.

[flexagon]

Being in a crowd without being afraid.

[dianec42]

What an amazing job our gardeners do. We're still paying them but we've told them to stay home until things are safer. Holy cow is that a lot of work