Is business ever going to go back to "normal"?

I miss a lot of stuff. I miss college, I miss my friends, I miss my routine, I miss the metro (not the supermarket). The only thing that I don’t miss, is waking up so early as I have to do to arrive in my class on time. I’m a creature of the night, so I’m always sleeping late. And when I have to study, I study better at night. Although I have more “free” time to do other stuff, I am not well enough to be “useful”, but I am starting to adapt to this new routine, while I really miss my old routine.

My reality is now the same reality of milion, if not billions, of people that had your life on “standby” because of Covid-19. And I know that once a cure, vaccine or even a treatment appear, things will go back to what we used to have. But the question is… is it, really? I mean, maybe this time that we are having is a good time to reflect about our life and our routines.

Is it okay for us to still living like we were before? Working to death in offices like we did before? Spending more time on work than our houses or with our family? I’m not saying that we should only work on home office, I already said before that we are ready to do home office work because we are ready to adapt, but that doesn’t mean that we only have to work from our homes or houses. Too much of anything is always bad. Being in quarantine for a month is bad, as bad as it is bad staying one month away from home/family because of the work.

People are discovering that for some jobs, working at home SOMETIMES is not a bad thing. People are discovering that for some jobs, working at the office is way better. People are discovering that that reunion does not have to be made and only an email can be send to everyone. People are discovering that our work life can be better and yet be effective to the company. We can have more times for ourselves and still be a good worker for a company. 

Covid-19 is something that is affecting everyone in the world, no exceptions. I can’t wait for the day that a vaccine, a treatment or cure will be announced, but we are having time to see our priorities in life, we are having time to understand and see what kind of life we are living as humans beings and we are seeing that we can make changes to change our lives for better.

The world cannot be the same as it were before, we can’t be the sames as we were before. our jobs and our obligations cannot be the sames as it were before. Not everything is working as it were before, but somehow we are still surviving, right? So, maybe we can make adjustments and fix what is definitely going wrong. We have to work, but we also can have a good life while working.