Changes, but some of past lives will return

IN perhaps only a few weeks from now we may begin a new lives since months of upsets, deaths and illnesses worldwide.

A number of changes will surely have taken place in our lives. Will these changes mean a better lifestyle, a return to previous times, or a rather new world?

In shopping there will be noticeable gaps and missing shops with some big names gone – the balance will need to be readdressed.

In the home we will now as a rule see many people doing their everyday job and not be travelling to a workplace. Travel will be less. Schools or colleges may well need considerable tightening of courses, lessons and timings of work.

Entertainment as in shows and Performances indoor and out have been missing for a while and will take a while to come back.

Finances will have taken all sorts of changes and will need restructuring – banks have closed – and methods of paying largely altered.

Travel worldwide will be gradually restored and life will have much to choose from. Meals and food and where to get it, where to eat it and what to take home will need to be rethought.

Sport having been severely hit nationally and locally will return in full with supporters filling stadia but possibly with some limitation of total numbers allowed.

Rules are likely to be stiffer and penalties more numerous. So in many areas of our lives we will see new ways and some returns to old ways, but one can say for sure this past period will have had a profound effect on all our lives.

Mike Ross, Wigston