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What Next?
My friend Jordin James (go read her stuff she’s awesome) recently challenged me to share a little bit about a word that has come to symbolize the pandemic for me personally as part of the #pandemicwordchallenge she started.
As it turns out, my mind had already been looking for personal themes, learnings, and takeaways over the past month and as soon as she mentioned the challenge I already knew the word I was going to share.
Alas, Jordin had chosen that same word for herself (you can read about her take on it here).
I thought about writing about the same word, offering my take on it, but the more I thought about it, the more a new word, well actually a short phrase rose to the forefront of my mind, so instead, I’m going to share that.
What Next?
As the pandemic has carried on, I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the question of “what next?”
The more I think about it, the more facets emerge to the question, ranging from huge issues regarding global decision making going forward and the economic fallout all the way down to the molecular level and the future of viruses like COVID-19.
Most interesting to me, however, is the question of who each of us will choose to be once this is all over.
