Greetings dear Hiveans and members of the SilverBloggers community. Here is another interesting title by @ericvancewalton for #memoirmonday community. Here goes the qustion -
What Do You Miss About the Pre-Pandemic World?
In few of my articles, I have mentioned about working abroad in KSA and then quitting the job, to pursue the education of my children back in my home country, India. This happened three years before the pandemic and my husband continued with his job abroad.
So here I took the privilege of sole responsibility, be it, admission of my children, grocery shopping for home, banking related work or Hospital visit, solo travelling as and when required. All these apart from my job. I secured a job as librarian in a nearby school. Infact I thoroughly enjoyed the job and house chores, as they were part of my systematic schedule.
The best part was the awaiti for school summer vacation. Every once a year, during vacation, I and my children would travel to KSA, to get our visa renewed. The excitement of travelling, my rental home in Saudi, meeting my husband after a long gap and making plans of how to spend the one month and then executing it, and above all, the visit to the holy mosque with the family members still remains as a fresh memory. Usually, after the prayer, we enjoy a Saudi meal called muttabak in a nearby restaurant .
The wait, the enthusiasm, the travel, the food, the reunion and finally the return after a month, all these I miss. This was a routine practice until 2018 **.
Once back, with no complaints, besides lot of demands, life moved on. But then all of a suddeb It was during the covid time, my husband lost his job abroad and with lot of commitments and regrets, had to return back, once & for all. From then on, as a perfect husband he took over the responsibility of all these miscellaneous work.
You should have thought what exactly I lost
It was the independence of moving out, meeting people etc. Gradually my travelling reduced except to the school where I worked. And as days passed to months, I became totally dependent and felt somewhere I lost my boldness and determination.
Next in line was the gatherings. Some of we friends usually had fun time over a cup of time, exchanging the happenings of the day,;either in a coffee shop or an open tea stall. But when the situation moved from bad to worse, we hardly met or we hardly spoke. Slowly, the distance between each of us kept drifting and we lost contact. It was one of the "ME" time I missed. Today, the tea stall is no more in visibility.
To be honest, I never suffered much ailments in the pre covid period and today my health issues keeps my mind unstable.
Looking back, some peaceful and memorable days were enjoyed by us. Nobody expected the tables to turn down one fine morning., leaving a pile of memories.
Photos posted are solely mine. Thankyou so much to go through my article.
Such a lovely pre pandemic memories but was ruined by Covid. Even at that, you still had time with your family. A lot of people lost their jobs during that time, forcing many of them to have more time with their families and I feel it was something good though not what we all expected.
Yes that's very true my dear. Getting more attached to family and understanding them.