| Comment | My story's a bit different from most of yours because I only moved to Glasgow recently. I moved back to my mum's in Edinburgh - before it all hit I was in Tokyo, but the sudden uncertainty about border restrictions plus the fact that my dad had just passed a few months prior meant that I made a very split-second decision to return. And ... my partner is still in Japan, and I haven't seen him since I left except through a screen. They only just opened the border to non-visa holders *this week*. So i fly on the 24th.
And yeah, the whole thing has *completely* broken me, and it upsets me that people are now pretending like it never happened. Like my best friend has started getting angry if I talk about what happened. He's not an idiot about it like he knows covid is still around (though he did go and catch covid this week), but he now thinks I'm "obsessed" with not catching the disease because I'm no longer comfortable going to very crowded places. (I did catch it, and it was horrible. I don't want a repeat of that if I can help it. But I don't think wearing a mask in the supermarket is a sign of obsession.)
So maybe for me moving to glasgow recently - and getting to fly out to Japan again - are me finally trying to claw back my independence and sanity. |
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